Downtown Hanoi even boasts a three-story luxury shopping mall, and the people shopping in it are not predominately foreigners.
Read MoreGood Economists, Bad Economists and Walmart →
The anti-Walmart campaigns of today are eerily reminiscent of the Luddite crusades against chain stores seven decades ago—proof of the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Read MoreGeorge Washington Plunkitt and Honest Graft →
The forgotten robber barons of Tammany Hall.
Read MoreHow We'll Know When We've Won →
We’ll know we’ve won the future for liberty when “public service” is regarded as what one naturally does in the private sector.
Read MoreYour Daily Liberty Checklist →
Put a check mark next to any that apply.
Read MoreWhere Have All the Monetary Cranks Gone? →
They’re now wearing pinstripe suits and instead of selling inflation per se, they’re hawking “stimulus” and “full employment.”
Read MoreThe Locofocos: When Democrats Were Principled and Respectable →
If you’re unhappy that today’s political parties give lip service to equal rights as they busy themselves carving yours up and passing out the pieces, don’t blame me. I’m a Locofoco.
Read MoreThe Sound of Freedom →
Some say The Sound of Music was corny, but for me it was an epiphany. It’s my favorite film, and it always will be.
Read MoreChild Labor and the British Industrial Revolution →
Child labor was relieved of its worst attributes not by legislative fiat but by the progressive march of an ever more productive capitalist system.
Read MoreA Tribute to the Polish People →
To all those millions of Polish freedom fighters who ushered communism into the dustbin of history, thank you for your courage, your perseverance, your vision, and your example.
Read MoreTwo Cheers for Transparency →
If citizens knew more about how their governments really worked and what they spent other people’s money on, it would not only make for better-informed citizens but for better (and hopefully less) government at the same time.
Read MoreAll the News that's fit to Tint →
What amazing magical powers our benevolent government has! It stimulates when it spends, unlike what happens when the rest of us spend.
Read MoreWhat We Believe →
Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are waging a battle of ideas to win, not to make a living, bide our time, or go down with the ship with a smile on our faces.
Read MoreA Trillion Wrongs Don't Make A Right →
If we had listened to the Indiana legislature in 1947, we might be several trillion dollars freer today.
Read MoreA Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty →
Khmer Rouge Survivor and Academy Award Winner Haing Ngor Didn't Take Liberty for Granted. The sad ending to his story was his murder in Los Angeles in February 1996.
Read MoreFreedom or Free-for-All →
The lofty notion that individuals possess certain rights—definable, inalienable, and sacred—has been cheapened and mongrelized beyond anything our Founders would recognize.
Read MoreHistory for Sale: Why Not? →
Have you ever noticed that the greatest book-burners in history have been governments, not private individuals?
Read MoreThe Earl of Wemyss and the Liberty and Property Defense League →
Prior to the 1880s, “individualism” was a term of opprobrium in most quarters, referring to “the atomism and selfishness of liberal society.” The League appropriated the word and elevated its general meaning to one of respect for the rights and uniqueness of each person.
Read MorePrivate Profit in Public Schools →
To waste time and money spreading myths and misconceptions about profits and private firms serves no one but selfish interests.
Read MoreOne of my favorite films of all time →
Two centuries ago, William Wilberforce showed us that one man can make a world rife with institutionalized corruption and inhumanity a better place.
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