The American Institute for Economic Research was formed 90 years ago to combat the New Deal, a series of vast socioeconomic experiments perpetrated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Dr. […]
Tag: Socialism
Unions Should Not Be Protected Against Suits for Deliberate Property Damage
The National Labor Relations Act gives labor union officials powers that no other people in the private sector have. Here are the most important ones. Because the National Labor Relations […]
Now the Education Department Wants To Make It Even Easier on Students Who Have Borrowed for College
Last year, President Biden decreed that students who have federal college loans would have $20,000 of their debts canceled. That action has been challenged since it usurps Congress’s power of […]
China: House Divided
There have been claims that China’s enormous economic growth and widely shared prosperity are the result of turning to capitalism. I think this is not true; China is not capitalist. […]
1619 Project: A Flawed Interpretation With a Hidden Agenda (Video)
In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand and AIER Research and Education Director Phillip W. Magness highlight the historical flaws of the 1619 project, and explore why it excludes […]
A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don’t Make Peace with Termites
For most of the last century, the “progressives” have been taking over the nation’s education system at every level. Pick any teacher, professor, or administrator and the chances are high […]
Why Don’t You Go Somewhere Else?
“If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?” In Michael Hiltzik’s Los Angeles Times article, “Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target–and why the company […]
Progressives Love Suppressing Votes–But Not the Way You Think
When you think about “voter suppression,” you probably think about the kinds of restrictions that disenfranchised Black voters who lived under Jim Crow. Maybe you think about ID laws or […]
Six Ways Socialism is Anti-Social
Here’s a question for a PhD dissertation: How did something so radically anti-social ever get the name, social-ism? I leave that vexing matter to whoever wants to write it up. Meantime, I can […]
When Lenin Read a Book on Marx
I expected pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence” from Marxists […]