5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (557+ words) Property rights are defined in many ways. It often happens that academics who are interested in the scope, regulation, or protection of private property rights debate endlessly at cross purposes because they do not share the same definition of property…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (417+ words) For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rather than serfdom?...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (550+ words) Multiculturalism’s advocates present their agenda in terms of enhancing diversity. By diversity they mean more variety, not what the DEI advocates mean by the word–replacement of merit by some definition of privilege, such as race, gender, sexual preference. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (153+ words) People in our sphere like to talk about this thing called the Overton Window. Anytime somebody proposes a political initiative or a protest movement or a petition or a publicity campaign that is either manifestly unworkable, counterproductive or ill-advised, we…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (416+ words) The economist Thomas Sowell frequently reminds us that inequality is inherent in human nature. Rather than being puzzled by economic inequality, we should be concerned with understanding the causes of productivity. It is productivity that improves everyone’s material conditions and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (271+ words) —– Writes Bill Madden: These two articles, see here and here, are worth reading. While saving money for retirement is a great idea, having the government manage the fund is a bad idea. A forced, government-managed retirement plan is straight from…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (842+ words) This essay is adapted from a lecture presented at Mises University, July 25, 2026. Another mistake occurs when modern libertarians attempt to rehabilitate the French Revolution to portray is as pro-freedom phenomenon. For example, in an essay titled “Thinking about the French…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (235+ words) McDonald was one of the most distinguished American historians, who first attracted attention with his book We the People, published in 1958, and he remained at the forefront of the historical profession until his death in 2016. (I gave a book report…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (301+ words) Ludwig von Mises Economic philosopher and author of Human Action (1949), whose analysis of bureaucratic intervention and market distortion influenced generations of free-market economists: The Extraction: When Your Labor Becomes Someone Else’s Entitlement This is not hyperbole. This is your Friday…...