I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.

The idea that politicians are supposed to provide solutions to problems is usually stupid, because politicians are not magicians. They can't do things any better than people who actually create wealth. They don't create wealth, they just redistribute it. We shouldn't think of the state as a very generous uncle who only thinks about us. A very good English translation of an interview with Kristina Votrubova in the publication Postroj. Conducted November 27, 2025.

Don’t ignore the long-run. Government is not Superman. The balance of trade is nonsense. Jesus was no socialist. And more! This is a video recording of my speech for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik in Bratislava, Slovakia, on November 27, 2025.

We should be in awe of the endless miracles that come our way from the marketplace of invention, innovation, and exchange. A podcast interview from the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org, October 2025.

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

The late Milton Friedman figures into this October 2025 video interview of me by Libertarianism.org. Topic: From “I, Pencil” to “I, Smartphone.”

Opposition arises every time new technology emerges. Often it is promoted by those whose livelihoods would be most directly affected. Their short-term, vested interest focus might grant them temporary security, but it does so at the expense of the well-being of everyone else.

You will be amazed at what goes into a handheld device that nearly everybody uses. Inspired by Leonard Read's famous piece, "I, Pencil," it will be a success if it becomes just a fraction of the classic Leonard's essay was.

A stone’s throw from the Idaho line, the town was a large work camp without a name but with a notorious reputation. It was described by a Chicago Tribune reporter as “the wickedest city in America.” (Image credit to the great painter and sculptor, Charlie Russell.)

Power rots the soul. Rare is the individual who becomes a better person for having possessed it.

In my mind, becoming a better person means striving to be a model in everything we do so that others will be inspired by our examples.

Few things anger me more than when an innocent animal is abused or neglected; such occasions make me wish I was a judge so I could throw the book at the guilty.

Genuine cultural progress occurs when individuals solve problems without resorting to politics or politicians.

Nearly 40 years ago, I went to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to interview the Finance Minister, Leslie Delatour. He was one of the smartest people I ever met. Afterwards, I published this interview. His time in the job was short but he did the right thing, as you can see from his amazing insights in this interview (click on headline). Sadly, he died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 51.

If you’ve supported the monstrous expansion of the federal government in recent decades, or if you’ve got a laundry list of things you want it to do because you think it’s not yet big enough, then don’t blow smoke about clean and honest politics. You’re part of the problem.

Hope is a potent stimulant. Never, ever, let it slip away. No matter what.

Born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.

Leftists are awfully selective about what’s “sustainable” and what isn’t.