Facebook and Other Tech Companies as Arbiters of Truth
Should Facebook have a policy of removing “misinformation” in the first place?
The Mind of the Dictator
The core problem in opposing dictatorships is the moral self-doubt of our politicians and that of other free countries.
Thanks to Capitalism, The Poor Get Richer
Because capitalism is voluntary and consumers have choices, the only way capitalists can get rich is to offer us something that we believe is better than we had before.
Wuhan Lab Controversy Illustrates How Government Funding Throttles Scientific Integrity
What is the solution to this problem of scientific groupthink?
Books: Niall Ferguson’s “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe”
“The lesson of history,” Ferguson eagerly argues, “is that biological and political contagions often coincide.”
Paying People Not to Work: Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity
To use Keynesian terms, employment in the United States is not suffering from an “aggregate demand” failure. There are plenty of job openings; it is a failure of a good number of employable people not being interested in filling the slots employers would like to fill. Why?
The Intellectual Assault on Economic Activity and Capitalism, Part 2 of 2
Economics proves the existence of a harmony of the rational self-interests of all participants in the economic system—a harmony which permeates the institutions of private ownership of the means of production, economic inequality, and economic competition.
Facebook “Silences” Intellectual Debate On Climate Issues
Climate Feedback’s “fact-check” wasn’t about actual facts.
Building Back Better Requires Free-Markets, Not Socialist Interventions
If the governments want the economy to recover and grow, they should drastically scale back (and over time, give up entirely) their economic interference and focus on the protection of individual rights.
The Injunction Function: Why It Matters to Secure Patents as Property Rights
Patents secure the fruits of productive labors of the innovators who create the new products and services that drive economic growth, create jobs, and ultimately contribute to a flourishing society.
A Chance to Rein in Eminent Domain
Eminent domain is a violation of property rights that was wrongfully expanded by Kelo v. New London, but which could be reined in with a new case.
The Intellectual Assault on Economic Activity and Capitalism, Part 1 of 2
Capitalism is denounced as “an anarchy of production,” a chaos ruled by “exploiters,” “robber barons,” and “profiteers,” who “coldly,” “calculatingly,” “heartlessly,” and “greedily” consume the efforts and destroy the lives of the broad masses of average, innocent people.
Inflation Is a Dangerous Way to Get Rid of Debt Burdens
Inflation is a form of tax, under which portions of the citizenry’s income and wealth is taken from them through reducing the real buying power of money held by all those in the private sector and the general public.
Taiwan is an Independent, Free Country That Communist China Should Seek To Emulate
If the Chinese Communist Party is looking for a country to question the legitimacy of, perhaps it should stop looking at Taiwan and look in a mirror.
Roundabouts Are Better
I hate waiting at traffic lights. There’s a solution: traffic circles, or roundabouts.