October 09, 2019
October 03, 2019
Bruce Ashford: Marxism is a false religion (video)
September 26, 2019
The sermons that sparked a socialist revolution
September 18, 2019
The Jacobins’ manifesto: ‘The Socialist Manifesto’ by Bhaskar Sunkara
September 17, 2019
The problem with intellectuals
I am in the curious position of being a blogger who distrusts opinions. The late yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar put it best when he wrote, “An opinion is yesterday’s right or wrong knowledge warmed up and re-served for today’s situation.” Continue Reading...
August 20, 2019
Understanding the words we use
August 16, 2019
Before economics, human freedom: Learning from Venezuela’s collapse
The Venezuelan people continue to struggle and suffer under the weight of severe socialist policies, facing economic collapse, widespread poverty, and mass starvation.
In response, socialism’s critics are quick to focus on the external features, noting how all of this could have been easily avoided with a basic respect for property rights, free exchange, free prices, and so on. Continue Reading...
August 05, 2019
Letter from China: Civic virtue without freedom?
July 26, 2019
Edmund Burke on true freedom
In the United States, a growing number of Americans, especially young Americans, are calling for extreme personal autonomy in the guise of “freedom,” while promoting increased government control and coercion.
The left, for example, defends radical pro-abortion laws motivated by a desire for personal autonomy. Continue Reading...
July 23, 2019
How ideologues devalue and dismiss economics
Economics is often dismissed as ideological, reductionist, and mendacious. In the United States we see these criticisms increasingly from both the political left and right. This should come as no surprise as the lessons of economics have implications for the prudential decisions that make up much of our political life. Continue Reading...
