Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians.
Modern progressivism is based upon the notion of equity—equal outcomes. However, as Ludwig von Mises wrote, classical liberalism had its roots in liberty, which was undergirded by equality before the law.
"President Donald Trump’s once unquestioned grip on his MAGA political base is showing signs of strain as some of his supporters have started pushing back..."
When John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971, he realized there were some loopholes that he tried to cover 22 years later with Political Liberalism. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon exposes the intellectual futility of Rawls' tricks.
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Pete Hegseth's reforms at the Pentagon may actually...
Hegseth says he is making the Pentagon more war ready, but he's "actually weakening all three legs of the Pentagon stool." Article by Karen Kwiatkowski.
Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more than a weighted average of numbers put into an arbitrary formula. It is time to end this statistical charade for good.
One of the most enduring myths of American history is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire advocate who “did nothing” while the US economy slid into depression. How did he gain this undeserved reputation?
Neither Congress nor President Trump speak anymore about a balanced budget. Instead, the Republicans and Democrats compete with each other to see who can spend the most.
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist.
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Plantation Ledgers and the Illusion of Capitalist...
The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, research shows that the plantations were anything but capitalist enterprises.
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why.
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about Trump's FDR-like proposal of a 50-year mortgage and the unfortunate reality that it seems to be one of the only actual policy ideas Republicans have left to "address" affordability.
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
History Professor Heather Cox Richardson has grown very wealthy using her writings to attack the creation of wealth itself. While her columns are popular, they also are filled with economic illiteracy.
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist.