Politics

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy. But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems. Ryan McMaken appears on Stossel TV.

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

All aboard! Government policies are moving us down the tracks into proverbial political perdition. This is a ride many of us would rather not be taking.

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man. 

How do new or even “radical” ideas become part of the body politic? The Overton Window provides a way of better way of helping us understand how things change.

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made him a very wealthy man. 

Leftists sarcastically asking where the money for this war will come from are right about the GOP’s hypocrisy, but wrong to imply that it actually means there's plenty to spend on all these government programs. We can’t afford any of this.

A number of countries, including Great Britain, has “right to roam” policies in which people are permitted to go onto private property, often against the owner’s wishes. This is nothing more than giving people a license to trespass.

Class conflict, as Marxists preach it, must be taught. Workers do not spontaneously see themselves as historical agents of class war.

“Ask yourself whether you are willing to kill in an unjust war, whether decrees from the US government can provide sufficient moral jus