Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson
October 21, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… The case for liberty is hidden in plain sight in our phones and a million other things our lives depend on.
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Advice for Presidential Candidates from Bastiat
October 6, 2019 – Lawrence W. Reed …… Imagine the difference it could make if even one of the candidates allowed the wisdom of only one or two of these snippets to truly sink in.
Look to China to Learn About America
September 22, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… The old American way of doing things came to an end with the 9/11 attacks. At that point, the national-security branch of the federal government adopted many of the same powers as the Chinese communist regime, and without any amendment to the Constitution.
Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”
September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business.
What If Charity Replaced Taxation?
July 19, 2019 – Jean Vilbert …… Perhaps if the government demanded less (coercively), people would give more voluntarily.
How I Learned to Reject Political Partisanship and Embrace Liberty
July 1, 2019 – Rory Margraf …… A journey toward embracing the ideology of individual liberty and peace.
Is the Government Really Accountable to the People?
June 27, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Peace and prosperity is diminished for taxpaying citizens because politicians and bureaucrats are not “accountable” for their actions in any meaningful sense of the word.
Why the Amorality of Markets Is Preferable to the Immorality of Coercion
June 20, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Liberty and voluntary relationships evoke the best in individuals and, therefore, society. So why do some people insist on using government coercion to impose their unattainable utopian visions on us?
Free Market Capitalism as the Antidote to the World’s Ills
June 19, 2019 – Richard Ebeling …… Liberal capitalism enables a degree of peace, harmony and respectful tolerance of the choices and ways of honest living for everyone in society to which nothing else compares.
12 Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government
June 13, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… Tolstoy once said that “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.”