Sunday, September 28, 2025

The Great Enrichment Is Real

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From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrar...
Friday, September 26, 2025

TGIF: Trump Fibbed about Favoring Free Speech

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Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free spee...
Friday, September 19, 2025

TGIF: Social Peace through Government Retrenchment

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For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Mass Production Equals Mass Consumption

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[R]elative shares in national income have remained substantially constant over the last hundred years. This, however, is true only if we mea...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Murder

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Why would anyone think that condemning a murder must imply any particular judgment about the victim?
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Friday, September 12, 2025

TGIF: Hurray for the Industrial Revolution!

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Unbelievably, in 2025, walking among us are people, many of them young and college-educated, who believe the Industrial Revolution (spawned ...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Enclosure Revision

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More than a decade ago, I ventured into the subject of English agricultural land enclosure as the Industrial Revolution was coming on. I reg...
Friday, September 05, 2025

TGIF: Trump and the Separation of Powers

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The U.S. Court of Appeals'  rejection last week of the Trump administration's global "emergency" tariff program was a wel...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Capitalism Civilizes

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"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than o...
Friday, August 29, 2025

TGIF: The Chicanery Behind Inequality Data

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If self-described progressives decry anything more fiercely than poverty, it is income and wealth inequality. Some have even suggested that ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

TGIF: The Poverty of Poverty Data

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"Poverty has no causes; prosperity has many. As history attests, poverty is humanity’s default condition.... But prosperity is not natu...
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Friday, August 15, 2025

TGIF: Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law

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Immigration control strikes at the heart of the rule of law. That fact is badly unappreciated, even by some libertarians. If for no other re...
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Saturday, August 09, 2025

Immigration Control and the Rule of Law

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If you think that immigration control does not strike at the heart of the rule of law, you need to listen to this:
Friday, August 08, 2025

The Palestinians: The Libertarian Take

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Even if the Palestinians are not a People , they nevertheless are and always have been  people— that is, individual human beings with natu...

TGIF: Socialist Confusion

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Recent polls indicate that many people under 30 view socialism and communism favorably. (For Marx, those words were synonyms.) It seems that...
Friday, August 01, 2025

TGIF: By Right or Permission?

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"Trump administration approves sale of CBS parent company Paramount after concessions" — NPR If the deal struck by Paramount and P...
Friday, July 25, 2025

TGIF: What Is Capitalism?

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So, what is capitalism? The answer will depend on who's being asked. Language, like markets, basic law, and customs, is a spontaneous o...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

TGIF: Immigration and Free Association

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Immigration. Despite other headline-grabbing news, this issue persists. How could it not? Trump's masked goon squad, ICE (Immigration an...