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It is easy to remain silent in the face of evil. What is harder—what we lack today and so desperately need—are those with moral courage who will risk their freedoms and lives in order to speak out against evil in its many forms.

The socialist notion of “sharing” is nothing of the kind. Sharing is voluntary, this is coerced. It is not sharing but coercion that is the essence of socialism. As the British author Kingsley Amis—a youthful socialist who came to support Thatcher—put it, “if socialism is not about compulsion,...

This story is a clear example of where the federal government has been far more of a hindrance than a help for the American people. Fortunately, the free market is already responding. 

I visited Chongqing in 1994, and recall a muddy, drab city full of crumbling grey cement buildings, with lots of poor people carrying heavy loads on their backs. But now interior cities like Chongqing look quite affluent.

The authors at Jacobin fail to grasp the nature of why central planning does not work, which is evident in their conflation of Friedrich Hayek’s position with Ludwig von Mises’s on why central planning in the economy is impossible.

Right now, people have to be unusually altruistic to donate a kidney, spending several days in the hospital, taking time off, and running a tiny risk of death.

Any horse you want to train can kick you in the head and kill you. Any dog can turn on you. Any trained parrot could (presumably) cuss you out. And your unconscious will do the same if treated to the same fare every day.

Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of a major new plan to forgive student debt. But in order to have the debate, they need to know that’s the proposal in question. The Affordable Loans for Any Student Act is a giant new loan forgiveness program and politicians should come right out...

In many places, government makes more off a pack of cigarettes than tobacco companies.

In an unprecedented move, Arizona has become the first state to recognize occupational licenses from every state. Governor Ducey told reporters, "You don’t lose your skills simply because you pack up a U-Haul truck and make the decision to move to Arizona."

The burning of the building is indeed tragic, but perhaps there is a greater lesson that can be extracted: that things fall apart, that the nature of existence is ephemeral. This is why Stoic philosophers believe in the concept of Memento Mori, Latin for “remember that you will die.” 

Hiltzik makes the argument that the gold standard somehow restrained “money supply” in the 1930s. It did no such thing. Nor could it have. A gold standard doesn’t limit the number of dollars in circulation any more than a 12” foot limits the number of rulers.

Concern about school shootings is driving an increased police presence in America's schools. Tennessee, for instance, recently dedicated $50 million to put a police officer in every school. Rather than deterring mass shootings, armed guards at schools often end up over-criminalizing students.

Francisco Toro opined in the Washington Post about the recent collapse of Venezuela’s power system.

A breakdown of how Washington will spend this year’s $35,148 per household.

In a letter advocating repeal of the tax, a coalition of 20 African-American pastors channeled their inner Milton Friedman, explaining that the soda tax should be judged by its results, not its intentions.

“Government solutions to community needs should never harm those they are trying to...

Hobbes claimed that the state will always be there as the champion and defender of human rights and the common good. Real-world international trade should compel us to abandon the Hobbesian fallacy that we need a state to guarantee peace in our commercial lives.

Politicians have a well-earned stereotype for being dishonest. While there are some people in the field who do believe in civic duty and serving their country’s best interests, they are greatly outnumbered by a permanent political/government class whose primary interest is to increase their own...

The number of US breweries reached a new record high of 7,450 in 2018—up from just 89 in 1978.

T.K. is driven “to awaken people to their own creative power,” describing himself as an entrepreneur first and a motivator second. T.K. will be joining us for FEEcon 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, for three days of discovery, connection, empowerment, and fun! We can’t wait to see you there!

Capitalism is boring. But capitalism has brought prosperity to this country and lifted people out of extreme poverty around the globe. Overwrought rhetoric that undermines trust in free enterprise is a threat to our prosperity.

"Mrs. Fidget very often said that she lived for her family. And it was not untrue. Everyone in the neighborhood knew it… she did all the washing; true, she did it badly, and they could have afforded to send it out to a laundry, and they frequently begged her not to do it. But she did."

Game of Thrones is mostly about conquest and the redistribution of wealth, not the creation of wealth. Sadly, that is what modern politics has become.

My research shows that when the minimum wage is raised, employers offset increased labor costs by reducing benefits like the generosity of health insurance. Other benefits, like free parking or flexibility in scheduling, are more difficult to measure but are also likely to be cut back.