Economic Freedom

Across the country, more young people are realizing that learning a trade is a better path than going to college.

Political and academic elites claim that economic freedom is the antithesis of civilization. They claim that functioning civilization can come only from a welfare state, a nonsensical proposition

It has become painfully obvious that we will not reverse the current march toward statism by “electing the right people.” Violent revolution is not the answer either. We need to change the Western mindset—before it is too late.

Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz believes that the path to freedom is . . . less freedom. Of course, he doesn’t package his advocacy of socialism as the diminishing of freedom but rather as expanding freedom by restraining economic freedom.

Political and academic elites have successfully convinced the public that they should fear private enterprise. However, people really should fear an out-of-control government.

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.

Political and academic elites have successfully convinced the public that they should fear private enterprise. However, people really should fear an out-of-control government.

Ryan and Tho discuss the media campaign around Joseph Stiglitz's new book, The Road to Freedom. 

Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with collectivism.

In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.