Progressivism

Massachusetts voters approved yet another tax hike for high-income residents, while California voters rejected a similar proposition. The current tax fever does not bode well for economic growth.

Cheap money in the last decade has meant good times for companies that barely make money and hire employees who barely work. But those times are now ending. 

Ours is an age of the progressive expert who nearly always is wrong but still is embraced by progressive politicians, the media, and academe.

Governments are demanding there be "proportional" representation of women in professions that women historically have avoided. Those efforts will be unsuccessful.

Europe is in crisis, thanks to its progressive leadership. Václav Klaus, former president of the Czech Republic, points out the problems and offers a remedy: free markets.

Historian Jon Meacham urges Joe Biden to be a "transformational" president in the way of FDR, but he forgets that Roosevelt put the "Great" in "Great Depression."

Governments, billionaire elites, and NGOs have a "wonderful" plan for the rest of us called the Great Reset. They need to read Mises to know their plans are madness.

This year’s midterm disappointment for Americans hoping the lunacy of the left would undermine the Democrat Party highlights that the very real problems we face will not fall under their own weight. Anti-human progressivism continues to rise, no matter how visually absurd it manifests itself.

American political, educational, and economic life is increasingly dominated by "experts." We should not be surprised that they fail most of the time.

Ours is an age of the progressive expert who nearly always is wrong but still is embraced by progressive politicians, the media, and academe.