POLITICS

The conservatives are narrowing the gap but the leftists still have a sizeable lead in this race to the moral bottom.

Both right and left betrayed their ideals. The right abandoned its affections for limited government, free enterprise, and the rule of law. And the left turned against its traditional stand for civil liberties, equal freedoms, and free speech.

Three hundred years ago, on June 5, 1723, one of the most important and influential thinkers in modern history, Adam Smith, was born in the small Scottish village of Kirkcaldy. There are few individuals who it can be said have left as lasting and as positive a legacy on humankind as Adam Smith.

It is revealing that capitalists are condemned for being egoistic, but customers and employees are not, even though they all look to profit in their own way.

Socialism is based on the doctrine of altruism, the morality of self-sacrifice.

If only we had a thinker who could portray (again, in a best-selling book, later made available for free) what benevolence, respect, and happiness could be achieved when people come to live as free, moral equals, swearing by their life and love of it to “never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

Socialism is a doctrine based at root not on love for the poor but on hatred for the creators, meaning anyone who makes money.

Online Security Concerns Shouldn’t Enable a Surveillance State

California’s gasoline prices are higher than the rest of the country because of the state’s taxes and regulations.

Scaling back deposit insurance, combined with a credible policy of putting failure costs onto their rightful owners, stockholders, instead of onto taxpayers is the proper solution to preventing mass bank failures.

Providing rights based on group identity is the formula for tribalism, tribal warfare, and injustice.

Faucism combines control over financial resources and information with a carefully cultivated cult of personality.

A government action against “junk fees” will result in the additional fees being bundled into a single, overall price, whether it’s a concert ticket, a new car, or some other item. Ironically or not, the opaqueness of blending all of those fees together makes it much easier to raise any or all of those fees over time.

President Biden is evading responsibility for the consequences of the anti-freedom, anti-development, anti-fossil-fuel policies he has supported.

How the federal income tax effectively created a penalty on individual control of medical and health insurance decisions that continues to this day.

Is capitalism to blame for climate change and the ills that the anti-capitalists accuse it of? To answer, we need to understand what capitalism is.

There is a role for the law in consumer data privacy, but for the most part, rather than looking for ways to regulate and punish, states should stay focused on actual violations of individual rights, such as when personally identifiable data is used to commit identity and financial theft.