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Last week's CPI report, and this week's PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices. 

Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended private property.

What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.

Murray Rothbard is one of the all-time greats in Austrian economics and libertarianism. When studying his achievements, we immediately see that Rothbard is a giant whose shoulders free-market scholars should aspire to stand on.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews Jeff Paulk’s Defending Southern Heritage.

The current strain of illiberalism running through western thought conflicts with the themes of individual liberty and liberalism that also came from western thinkers. We need to recover those best ideas from antiquity to the present.

With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state solves none of the problems he presents.

In the year since Donald Trump’s “liberation day” in April 2024 fewer Americans are now working, and inflation-adjusted hourly earnings are still below where they were in 2021.

While Republicans have promised robust economic growth to accompany their tax cuts, reality has been different. That is because Republicans increased government spending at the same time, dragging down the economy.

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