Is Google Too Big and Powerful?

Instead of worrying about Google’s influence, we should oppose a real threat: government’s initiation of force, through measures such as carbon taxes or dictating how Google should operate.

Trump’s Promise on Deregulation: Repeal 22 Regulations for Every New One

by John Stossel

Every excessive rule repealed is a step in the right direction: toward freedom.

What Will They Learn at College?

by Walter Williams

Spending four or more years in a politically correct college and accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt is not the only road to a successful life.

How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery

by Phillip W. Magness

Interest in the history of American capitalism is on the rise, although curiously this line of study is being advanced for anticapitalistic ideological reasons.

Scottish Banks and the Bank Restriction, 1797-1821, Part 3

by George Selgin

Blame the Bankers, Not Freedom in Banking

Scottish Banks and the Bank Restriction, 1797-1821, Part 2

by George Selgin

That there was widespread support for the Scottish bank suspension did not, however, mean that the suspension left the Scottish public unscathed.

Scottish Banks and the Bank Restriction, 1797-1821, Part 1

by George Selgin

Does the Scottish suspension suggest that fractional reserve banking is, inconsistent with genuine freedom in banking, including the consistent honoring of bank customers' property rights?

Abortion Rights are Pro-Life

by Leonard Peikoff

Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms "pro-life" and "right to life" to the anti-abortionists. It is a woman's right to her life that gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy.

How Much Damage Will Come from this Trade War?

by Richard M. Ebeling

First, the good news: the U.S. and world economies have not imploded, so far, as fallout from the rising trade tensions between the Trump administration and Xi Jinping’s government in China. Now,...