Free Markets

Advertising must be defended by those who believe in freedom of speech — for that is all advertising is.

If you want a monopoly, you don’t have to be buddies with the king. You can just go to the patent office.

Hayek determined to form a society committed to persuading the intellectuals, and hence the masses and their political leaders, to change course.

If we were all responsible for our own healthcare, education, and sustenance, there would be no immigration debate.

The way to become an expert is as follows: don’t challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of the institution; learn the history, underlying principles, and the inner workings of the institution; regurgitate the orthodoxy as you’ve been taught; celebrate the march of the state.

When you speak, you act; and action implies taking control of one's own body with the underlying idea of private property.

 

His radically antiwar views on the eve of the US government’s intervention in World War I got him fired from the New Republic. He stuck to his principles and produced some of the best antiwar and antistate writings of the 20th century. Bourne speaks to us today.

This libertarian classic imagines a totally free society — one with no government intrusion whatsoever.

The meltdown of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 didn't begin the crisis; it was a model of how all troubled firms should have been handled. Had this policy been followed from the beginning, I have little doubt that the downturn would already be over and we would not have added to the debt problem.

In any given context, the state is either unnecessary or impossible.