When the Soviet Union wanted to take away the rights of Catholics to worship, it confiscated their churches. The Soviets knew that the right to own property is intimately connected to a right of religious freedom. Pope Francis appears to not understand this.
New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!
James Bond is not a name that's typically mentioned in discussions of humble foreign policy or the importance of enforceable property rights.
No amount of fantasizing can make fundamental economic realities go away, no matter how much we put our faith in central banks, government regulation, or technologies of the future.
Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, takes a look at the entrepreneurs and capitalists of the high-tech world where oddball inventors learn the hard lessons of Economics 101. It turns out there's a lot more to making money than just being smart.
Millions of pop culture consumers have been affected by the "post scarcity" world portrayed in Star Trek. But even in Star Trek, the claims of having overcome scarcity are belied by the fact that human lives, planets, starships, and time all remain scarce.
International trade grasped headlines with Monday’s announcement that twelve governments have agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While we should expect to see this celebrated in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, it is unfortunate even libertarian organizations are praising the agreement.
Our visit was an opportunity to build lasting friendships with fine people and to see at first hand the wonderful work this privately funded organization is doing.
Jeff Deist and Ed Stringham demolish the idea that only the state can manage and adjudicate human conflicts.
To support free markets is to invite criticism on virtually every policy issue.
