America’s First Television Czar
Have you ever wondered why the "tiny ship" famously tossed in the opening credits of Gilligan's Island was named the SS Minnow?
Free Markets
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Ideas Can Overthrow Regimes
These tell-tale signs of a dictatorship all reinforce Mises's observation: the regime can only last if it maintains the illusion that it is beneficial to the masses. Mere physical strength is not sufficient, because it is ultimately ideas that determine which way the soldiers and police point their guns.
What Is Prejudice?
What is described as prejudice is often nothing more than the sum total of a person’s actual experience and learning, formed on the basis of observation of reality.
More for Me Does Not Mean Better for Us
Union defenders have justified their position based on little more than the assertion that some union benefited them or some member of their family.
The Socialism of Agri-Patents
ome bozo tried to patent a species in 1889, but the patent commissioner rejected it as "unreasonable and impossible." Exactly. But this changed in stages, and only fairly recently. The current regime dates from the late 1980s. These patents handed the Left their best arguments.
Capitalism and Socialism
How many people do you know who use variations on “capitalism” to describe pretty much anything they don’t like? It’s a vice that cuts several ways.
The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin
Kropotkin is one of the half-dozen cases of anarchocommunists that are worth a second look.
Taxpayers in Revolt
Taxpayers, struggling to make ends meet, would likely join the revolt, if taxes are raised just so 46 year-old ex-policemen and ex-firefighters can enjoy cushy retirements.
The Scottish Enlightenment and Presbyterianism
Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, while scarcely orthodox Calvinists, were dedicated Presbyterians according to their own lights.
The Fight against Intellectual Property
IP empowers some people to use government to limit other people’s speech and actions.
