Progressivism

Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Postmodern and Marxist "scholars" claim that private property simply is a social construct that is a product of white racism. Austrians reply that private property comes from natural rights, not vague social decrees.

Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Here on Income Tax Day, we recommend that next time, they should do nothing.

Congress and the courts have eviscerated the Constitution to empower police dogs. The injustices are massive, but the authorities don't care.

A strategy for liberty must be both optimistic and realistic. Murray Rothbard understood that important point and laid out strategies and their moral justification.

Feminist theorist Judith Butler is calling for mandatory education to confront children with modern gender theory. As David Gordon points out, she wants to use coercion to force people to accept her theories.

The world is full of scraps of paper today.

As the government expands the reach of civil rights law, one of the casualties is the presumption of innocence. The new rule seems to be “guilty until proven guilty.”

Murray Rothbard said it best: egalitarianism is a revolt against nature itself. Unfortunately, progressive politicians are determined to push egalitarian regimes no matter how disastrous they turn out to be.

Mark links the Global Climate change agenda to the old “Population Bomb” of the 1970s.