[Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Liberalų sąjūdis (Liberals’ Movement) a center-right Lithuanian political party containing free-market and libertarian factions. In this context, “liberal” is roughly equivalent to what we call “classical liberal” in the English-speaking world.
According to the most recent data, the birth rate in the United States hit a new low in 2024. Many pundits and economists across the political spectrum have framed this as a big problem, not least of all because regime supporters want more young taxpayers to prop up social-benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security.
Among both leftists and conservatives, it has become popular to insist that a few tweaks to economic policy will reverse the downward trend in fertility.
[This article is Per Bylund’s opening speech he gave for Sociedad de la Libertad’s VIII Cumbre Mundial de la Libertad (the Seventh World Summit of Freedom) on November 9, 2025.]
Is a little wet, still wet? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. But, for many, the correct answer—for which they argue vociferously—is that “a little wet is not wet.”
Rothbard’s biographer, and a great friend to peace and freedom. I still miss reading Justin’s weekly column at antiwar.com.
The doctrines of socialism have been with us for more than 150 years, but no one had really tried it in a total way until the advent of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the early 1990s. During that period, a number of communist/socialist revolutions occurred in Asia, Cuba, and Africa, all of which provided a laboratory to observe how these socialist economies would perform.
