Libertarianism and Science Fiction: What’s the Connection?
The widespread popularity of science fiction is one of the factors that has helped to keep individualism at the center of American culture.
A People’s Uprising Against the Empire
More than the anti-Soviet protests of the late 1980s, the Egyptian uprisings reveal what might eventually come home to the American empire itself, under the right conditions and at the right time.
Blinder Understates the Cost of a Carbon Tax
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder listed numerous alleged benefits of a phased-in carbon tax.
Is Life without the State Always Chaos?
Removing the ability of a lone societal institution to arrogate to itself the right to pronounce law and to decide cases would result not in disorder but in a legal framework that more perfectly reflects the norms of society.
What Can the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility Teach Us?
This is your one-article guide to understanding a core idea of economics.The law of diminishing marginal utility plays a crucial role in showing that socialism is economically and ethically inferior to capitalism. It also has surprising implications for every area of policy, including money, interest rates, and property rights.
How Marshall Field Succeeded
This world-renowned merchant seeks no fame for his business achievements. Yet there is no story more full of encouragement and inspiration for youth.
Raw Capitalism in the Restaurant World
The beauty of the kitchen is that credentials or degrees don’t matter. If there is such a thing as dog-eat-dog capitalism, this must be it — with customers holding the leash.
99% in Southern Sudan vote for secession
It is one of thousands of cases where one group of people wants to live differently than the way in which another group of people forces them to live. In this case, those who were not allowed to live as they wanted have now been given the choice to vote their way to freedom. Low and behold, 99% of the people chose to live differently.
The Reagan Phenomenon
[Free Life: The Journal of the Libertarian Alliance, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984)]
The Two Faces of Ronald Reagan
[First published in Inquiry, 3, 13 (July 7 & 21, 1980), pp. 16–20.]
A curious thing is happening in this extraordinary election year. The liberals are beginning to adjust to Ronald Reagan. After all, they claim, he’s getting more moderate, he’ll have to shift to the center to win the election, and he was a moderate and “flexible” governor of California for eight years. Maybe he won’t be that bad, certainly not as erratic as Carter.
