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The Modern World Is Doing Spectacularly Well. New Graduates Shouldn’t Think They Can Change It In Their First Weeks Out Of School.

May 30, 2019

I would encourage graduates to marvel at the modern world. I would make clear that the best way for them to change the world — really, the only way to change it for the better — is to work to strengthen and spread the commitment to individual liberty and free markets.

You Can Vote Your Way Into Socialism, But You Have To Shoot Your Way Out.

May 29, 2019

It will be Venezuela all over again, and meek half-steps will not check the social ills. As civilization crumbles, the choice will be suppression now or repression later. Rebel now, get suppressed now. Don't rebel now, get repressed later anyway.

Equality Can Only Exist In Collective Poverty. Americans Prefer Wealth Creation By Individual Effort.

May 28, 2019

At the apex of American society stands a heritage of individualism. The United States being a country founded by immigrants looking for freedom from the oppressive political regimes of Europe is a nation with a strong commitment to the values of individual responsibility, personal freedom, and belief in limited government.

Capitalism Promises Hope And Requires Responsibility. Politicians, Intellectuals And Critics Promote Only Envy.

May 27, 2019

Why do intellectuals, particularly university professors, resent capitalism? Simple, Mises explains: they resent the higher incomes and prestige of the risk-taking, entrepreneurial widget makers they look down upon.

The Freedom Party Versus The Fairness Party Fight A War Within The Supreme Court.

May 26, 2019

The Founders wanted a written constitution, strictly limiting federal authority, because they knew that human nature’s inborn selfishness and aggression would lead government officials to abuse their power if not restrained. At crucial junctures, the Supreme Court has twisted the Constitution that guarantees liberty toward government oppression.

Even If The Stories Of Socialist Sharks Are Overblown, We Should Still Be Concerned About Attitudes To Capitalism.

May 25, 2019

But just because young people aren’t signing up in droves for socialism doesn’t mean they aren’t concerned about the future of the U.S. economic system. A 2015 poll by the Harvard Institute of Politics found that nearly half of 18- to 29-year-olds believe the American Dream is “dead” for them.

The Life Of The Entrepreneur Is A Heroic Contribution To Society, Whatever Its Scale.

May 24, 2019

Such harsh words are used about profit, and yet it is the social signal of approval. People who are benefiting from capitalism, like Hollywood celebrities and Silicon Valley billionaires, do not understand capitalism and decry it. What should entrepreneurs do? Just keep working at entrepreneurship.

Single-Payer Healthcare Is The Worst Kind Of Universal Healthcare.

May 23, 2019

The innovation, quality improvements, and timely care offered by competing private firms would be largely destroyed by adopting a single-payer system. Those now clamoring for a single-payer system would have us believe this all must be abolished in favor of near-total government control.

5 Charts Vividly Demonstrate The Economic Divide Between Socialist Venezuela And Free Market Chile

May 22, 2019

The economic and political deterioration of Venezuela has followed the pattern that Hayek described in 1944. In Chile, in contrast, free markets dispersed economic power amongst millions of Chileans and the military government, which ran the country between 1973 and 1990, gave way to democracy. Today, Chile is both economically and politically free.

Why The Dire Predictions Of Earth Day Are Invariably Wrong.

May 21, 2019

The Earth's atoms may be fixed, but the possible combinations of those atoms are infinite. What matters, then, is not the physical limits of our planet, but human freedom to experiment and reimagine the use of resources that we have."

Elizabeth Warren Gets Something Right: Government And Big Corporations Are Aligned Against Small Businesses.

May 20, 2019

Predatory behavior is widespread. It can be found in the hefty swipe fees Visa and Mastercard impose on independent retailers that have no alternative but to pay up, and in the loss of shelf space that local breweries face when Anheuser-Busch InBev buys or bribes their distributors.

The Left’s Long March Through The Institutions Is Now Pretty Much Complete, And It’s A Disaster.

May 19, 2019

Gramsci spoke of organizations including churches, charities, the media, schools, universities and “economic corporate” power as being organizations needing to be invaded by socialist thinkers.

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