Brian Phillips

Schools Should be Accountable to Parents and Students

Expanding the government’s education monopoly will not achieve that goal. Expanding freedom of choice will. Freedom of choice will empower parents and students to hold schools accountable.

Maui Wildfires: Hawaii Governor Adds Insult to Injury

Preventing some individuals from making bad decisions also prevents individuals from making good decisions.

Capitalism at a Crossroads: 1875-1900

Throughout history, some people have enjoyed greater wealth than others. However, American society was the first in which thatwealth was attained, not by conquest or confiscation, but by production and trade. For this, America’s capitalists were condemned.

The Self-Interest of Self-Regulation

Honest businessmen, who are well aware of the importance of customer goodwill, try to insure that their businesses are not harmed by the unscrupulous actions of others. Many of them have formed voluntary associations to provide self-regulation in their industries.

Subsidies and Government Schools

If rural Texans want government schools, then they should be willing to pay for them. Nobody is stopping them from making voluntary contributions to their local schools. They aren’t doing that because they would prefer to force others to “contribute” to their cause.

California Reparations Task Force: Fighting Injustice with Injustice

Racism is a vile ideology. But the proper way to fight racism is through education and by ostracizing racists. We should not be fighting injustice with injustice.

Legislators Should be Protecting Intellectual Liberty

While the Senate is promoting the intellectual liberty of parents and students it is also assaulting that freedom by mandating that a particular set of ideas be taught.

Property Rights in Space

A truly moral justification for property rights in space.

Let’s Create Opportunities for All Texas Students

Freedom enables opportunities. School choice creates more freedom for parents and students.

Government vs Private Schools: Better by What Standard?

It is time to enable parents to have the freedom to choose the school for their children through school choice.

Capitalists on the Moon

The essence of Jacobin Magazine’s argument is that it isn’t fair that some get to enjoy things most of us can’t afford. If everyone can’t enjoy luxuries, then nobody should be allowed to. This is an example of what Ayn Rand called “hatred of the good for being the good.”

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

It is rare that a book can objectively present the facts and then draw all of the wrong conclusions. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017, is one such book.

A Sad Story Isn’t an Argument for the Welfare State

Motivating us to feel sorry for the poor and down trodden allows the Leftists to cash in their trump card—the widespread belief that we have a moral obligation to serve those in need.