Too few Americans, even among the liberty-loving, exhibit sufficient understanding of America’s smaller-government past to articulate a realistic smaller-government future. Many libertarians can parse doctrinal differences between Hayek, Mises, Rand, […]
Tag: Books
Are Free Traders Guilty of Naïve Globalism?
Samuel Gregg’s 2022 book, The Next American Economy, is an important and brilliant achievement. Gregg eloquently champions the free, commercial society against its many detractors. Among these detractors, of course, […]
What We Owe The Future: A Review
Credit Bill MacAskill for a Big Think piece. It’s not every day, after all, that we’re asked to take a “million-year view” or to allow our imaginations to roam about […]
How Our Higher Education System Could Put Students First
American higher education is a stunning success, but mostly for the people who work in it. Faculty members and administrators enjoy employment that pays pretty well and is more secure […]
Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
I recently read Highway Heist, a provocative book by economist James T. Bennett. Professor Bennett’s specialty is in applying free market thinking to subjects that most people believe require government […]
How Media Bias Caused the Moral Panic Surrounding Climate Change
President Biden has put combating climate change at the very top of his national and international agenda, saying that military officials had told him that climate change was the “greatest […]
The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism)
With its humble beginnings being worn by Croatian mercenaries in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), its subsequent promotion by French absolutist monarch Louis XIV, and its continual evolution since then, the necktie […]
Capitalism’s Cure for Economic Sins
Philosopher and business ethics expert James Otteson of the University of Notre Dame wants to save you from the error of your ways, and by doing so improve your life. […]
From a Shadow Constitution to a Network State
Balaji Srinivasan has distinguished himself as a neurodivergent fount. Ideas and analyses pour out of him, even on bad days. He regales interviewers momently with acronyms and anecdotes as if […]
Where Is the Free Market Utopia?
The Great Reversal defends a provocative and surprising thesis: the United States has given up on free markets while Europe has embraced them. As a result, Europeans pay less and get […]