Progressivism

We are told that Americans live under a state that claims “consent of the governed,” but when does the government seek our consent for anything?

We are told that Americans live under a state that claims “consent of the governed,” but when does the government seek our consent for anything?

The top AI CEOs aren't acting like they genuinely believe their technology will soon cause human extinction. But they are acting like the successful cartelizers of history, who recognized that state power is the best way to protect market dominance.

The top AI CEOs aren't acting like they genuinely believe their technology will soon cause human extinction. But they are acting like the successful cartelizers of history, who recognized that state power is the best way to protect market dominance.

The more the state is involved in “eliminating” poverty, the more poverty we have in society. The free market is the best means of reducing poverty.

The left is trying to reframe the Jason Arday affair as a witch hunt in which a racist media and a jealous professor hounded him to suicide. However, it was Cambridge University that failed, not those that sought the truth.

A brief episode of competition in the early telephone industry demonstrates that, even when hampered, competitive pressure challenged the state-created telephone monopoly. Exploring this territory allows us to imagine the possibilities of what could have been in true a free market.

An article of faith with modern progressives is that all social problems can be solved with the growth and application of the administrative state. They have faith in the wrong thing.

Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards suggests a connection between Austrian economics and a new wave of authoritarianism and racism.

Modern mass democracy, especially when coupled with bureaucracy, creates uniquely powerful incentives for the production, consumption, and institutionalization of unreality.