There is little reason to believe that politicians are more compassionate or caring than the population that elects them.
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Utopian Communalism: One Flop After Another →
Everybody was supposed to live happily ever after (which, as readers know, is a popular final line of many a fairy tale).
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Great Myths of the Great Depression →
What caused the Great Depression? Was Hoover a practitioner of laissez faire? Did FDR save us? Read here, in HTML, eBook, hard copy, or pdf.
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Are We Rome? Lessons from the Ancients →
Monumental sums for bailouts. Staggering increases in public debt. Concentration of power in the central government. Buying votes with other people’s money. Sound familiar?
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Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy →
First delivered before the Detroit Economic Club in the mid-1990s, this speech has since been given in at least half the states and in many countries. Translated into at least 15 languages at last count.
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Liberty as a Life Philosophy →
Embracing liberty as a life philosophy requires that you get your own affairs in order, be a burden to no one, seek nothing from others through the political process except that they leave you alone, and be a model in everything you do so that others will be inspired by your example.
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So You Want to be an Entrepreneur? →
Entrepreneurship is a noble calling. Prepare yourself accordingly.
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What Does the World Need More Of? →
The world needs more people who possess those traits honored by time, experience, and good sense.
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The Lust for Power Led to Rome's Decline →
Power, and the desire for more, is always corruptive, as illustrated by the life of Gaius Marius.
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The Entrepreneur as Voyager: The Story of Joshua Slocum →
Resourcefulness is an element of entrepreneurship. Making the most of what you’ve got (or can figure out how to get) is basically what resourcefulness is all about. Slocum was blessed with a bounty of it.
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Socialism: Force or Fantasy? It's Actually Both →
It’s a giant blackboard in the sky on which you can write anything your heart desires and then just erase it when embarrassing circumstances arise.
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What Prompted the Magna Carta? War and Taxes →
Bled dry by two buffoons in a row, the barons and dukes of England, with the support of just about everybody else, mustered the courage in 1215 to tell John where to get off.
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Edmund Burke: Eloquence and Conviction →
Burke criticized the overreach of government in all spheres, arguing that treating people as pawns of power only bred violence and disorder.
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Traveling the Globe: An Interview →
Mark Twain was right when he said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Being a libertarian, I try to see people for the individuals they are, but even the stereotypes I subconsciously retained were blown away during my early travels.
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Was Jesus a Socialist? →
You can scour the Scriptures with a fine-tooth comb but you won't find a word from Jesus that endorses the forcible redistribution of wealth by political authorities, the concentration of earthly power, central planning of the economy or nationalization of businesses.
How to Lose a Constitution →
No people who lost their character kept their liberties.
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To Own or Be Owned: Private Property is the Issue →
For thoroughly trashing the resources of any society, no more surefire prescription exists than to take them from those to whom they belong (the rightful owners) and give them to those who are convinced in the fantasyland of their own minds that they have a better idea of what to do with them.
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Cicero: Enemy of the State, Friend of Liberty →
Some might say Cicero’s labors to save the Roman Republic were, at least in hindsight, a waste of time. He gave his life for an ideal that he was able to extend tenuously for maybe a couple of decades. But if I had an hour with Cicero, I would thank him.
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The Fall of the Republic →
We know the path the Romans took, so we have no excuse for not learning from their experience. Do we really want to keep heading in the same direction? Not me!
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Rules of Thumb for Advancing Liberty →
As indispensable as liberty is to the progress of humanity, its future is never assured. Indeed, on most fronts, freedom has been in retreat for years—its light flickering against the winds of ignorance, irresponsibility, short-term gratification, and power lust.
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