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Tolkien, Christianity, and the State

Blog07/20/2019Zachary Yost

Conservatives appear to be increasingly in favor of using the power of the state to force their agenda. But what happens when the state they favor is turned against them?

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The Problem with Paid Parental Leave

Big GovernmentValue and Exchange

Blog03/28/2017Xiong Yue

Once again, good-intentioned policies that ignore the laws of economics only hurt those who they were originally intended to help.

Chilean Protesters Could End Chile's Decades of Progress

José Niño

The history of Latin America is filled with tragic stories of countries reaching great heights — Argentina and Venezuela come to mind — and then falling back to mediocrity. Chile could be next if the protesters get their way.

Why Central Banks Aren't Really Setting Interest Rates

Frank Shostak

Central banks can only distort and mask real interest rates with monetary policy. Interest rates are really set by each individual's time preference.

The Silicon Valley Gulag

Jason Morgan

“Digital Maoism,” the default collectivism of "the Internet," as a collective (and impersonal) noun, is the very nature of the internet as it now exists, under the dominion of Google and other anti-freedom superpowers.