A world without animals—even the ones you wouldn’t want to have dinner with—is just unthinkable.

David L. Bahnsen's 'There’s No Free Lunch' contains the wisdom of Hayek, von Mises, Sowell, Hazlitt, Friedman, Gilder, Bastiat, Acton, and more.

If you think that people act to improve themselves in the private sector, but they take their self-interest Derby off and put their altruism Stetson on when they enter government, you’ve been drinking some nasty Kool-Aid.

Daniel Lahoud (born 1959) is a fascinating man—an advocate for free market ideas in a country whose government has practiced socialism for as long as most of Daniel’s fellow Venezuelans can remember.

A government composed of neighbors you know may be naturally more accountable than distant bureaucrats and politicians you don’t know.

Do your teenagers come home from school echoing the divisive nonsense of Critical Race Theory, feeling terrible about America, hating the system of free enterprise that built the country? Chances are their teachers caught the virus from the radicals in university departments of education.

In this January 27, 2022 "Economics Explored" interview from podcaster Gene Tunny, economist from Brisbane and former Australian Treasury official, I discussed price controls and other current topics. 45 min.

Why did Massachusetts embark upon a short-lived experiment in unbacked paper money in 1690?

Marauding tyrants deserve a bloody nose at the very least.

Sign me up to be the next U.S. ambassador to this place, please. I’ll do it for free.

No one in the world should be ignorant of the deadliest ideology in mankind’s history.

The story of the five transcontinental railroads built by 1900 often overlooks some remarkable lessons about private initiative and government subsidies.

For centuries, the extraordinary influence and prosperity of the tiny Republic of Genoa stemmed not from a political leader but from a well-run private bank and the limitations on the state that it helped to maintain.

Dr. King noted that capitalism (the system of private property, entrepreneurship, and free markets) made it possible for America “to do wonders” and “become the richest nation in the world.” He called it “the greatest system of production that history has ever known.”

Bottom line: The Sphinx was no accident, and neither are you. The evidence for a Creator is all around us. It’s been there since Creation.

Earlier this month (December 2021), voters in Chile elected a socialist as the country’s new President. It’s only a matter of time before Chile will need a Thatcher to fix all the problems Chileans are soon to experience.

Rest in Peace, Ethelmae — a faithful, kind, generous, adventurous, unforgettable Missouri Mom of boundless character.

In this wide-ranging interview with Justin O’Connell of the Gold/Silver/Bitcoin Show in November 2021, I touched on freedom, socialism, some great theologians, monetary theory, Bitcoin and related topics.

He once said, “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

Time and experience have shown us that the best words any man can write are guaranteed neither universal nor eternal acceptance. Each new generation must be reminded of principles or even the best of them can be lost.