Trade is a two-way street. Closing the door to imports closes the door to exports.

His politics were both good and not, but his personal advice is fantastic.

If only the world appreciated how he brilliantly and thoroughly demolished socialism nearly a century ago, millions of early deaths and untold misery could have been avoided in the decades since. Fifty Nobels would be insufficient to appropriately honor the man, but the world we know is hardly fair.

The best person might not be the pick of the nominee. It wasn’t in 1920.

Freedom—understanding it, living it, teaching it, and supporting those who are educating others about its principles. That, my fellow Americans, is what patriotism should mean to each of us today.

An oldie from 1980 but its principles still apply today.

Justice George Sutherland on Private Rights and Government.

I’m reminded of the words of Tacitus some 2,000 years ago: “When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.”

The Forgotten History of Classical Liberalism in the Empire State.

Liberty is precious, rare, never guaranteed, and always threatened. It can be lost in a single generation if it’s not advanced and defended.

This guy badly needs some basic Economics.

Rome fell to invaders in 476 AD, but who the real barbarians were is an open question. The Roman people who supported the welfare state and the politicians who administered it so weakened society that the Western Roman Empire fell like a ripe plum that year. Maybe the real barbarians were those Romans who had effectively committed a slow-motion financial suicide.

Planning, welfare statism, and the curse of the awful New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell.

If China’s leaders pile more “expert” central planning on top of their already mile-high pile, a busted stock market will be one of the least of their long-term worries.

The world in the 21st century is beset with economic fallacies that are, for the most part, modern versions of those that Bastiat demolished 16 decades ago. 

If you produced the same results while advocating capitalism, you’d be reckoned a monster.

In an important sense, free economies don’t have “architects.” However, the “planned chaos” of socialist economies has lots of architects. Some are well-meaning busybodies eager to knead other human beings like dough on a social kneading board. Others are presumptuous con artists who savor the power their plans require. John James Cowperthwaite knew the folly of central planning.

Entrepreneurship survives on streets named for Communists — from the Mackinac Center’s Michael Van Beek.

Good intentions are not enough. Nowhere near enough, in fact. Other things matter too, such as reason, logic, moral principles, evidence, outcomes, history and experience, reality and facts.

Profit is responsible for more good things—by a long shot—than all the charity in the world.