Capitalism

Socialism's failures are well-known, but true believers abound that insist that this time we can make it work. The question is why anyone still believes in it at all.

Socialism's failures are well-known, but true believers abound that insist that this time we can make it work. The question is why anyone still believes in it at all.

American investments in Venezuela are likely to provide little direct financial benefit to the taxpayers shouldering the cost. They risk empowering a dictatorship that uses its power to repress its citizens and private enterprises.

For all the claims made by socialists that capitalism produces monopolies, socialists argue for one big monopoly to control everything: the state.

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss what appears to be a coordinated call to regulate AI. Is this a benevolent plea to save humanity, or a thinly veiled attempt to establish a cartel?

Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as leftists claim, then why didn’t Brazil's economy match that of the US?

Both Brazil and the US had slavery in the 1800s, but the US economy flourished while Brazil’s languished. If slavery was the engine for US economic growth, as leftists claim, then why didn’t Brazil's economy match that of the US?

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at philosopher Richard Miller’s stunning retreat from Marxism, the philosophy he espoused for most of his career.

As the Iran war and other events challenge US hegemony around the world, reality is forcing Americans to rethink what they once took for granted.

Rainer Zitelmann, the erstwhile defender of capitalism, takes his defense out of this world as he examines capitalism and space travel. Lipton Matthews, in this review of New Space Capitalism, gives it a thumbs up.