Economic Freedom
Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation
Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.
Progress from Poverty
After the Indochina War, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world, but dramatic free-market reforms have made this formerly socialist country prosperous.
Defending Individual Liberty
The enemies of individual liberty are numerous, from leftists who see freedom as interfering with the “positive freedoms” offered by the state to conservatives that believe too much freedom destroys community relationships.
Freedom of Contract and Property Rights
Conservatives and utilitarian classical liberals support freedom of contract because they deem it "useful" to society. However, Murray Rothbard believed that contractual freedom should be based upon the natural right of self-ownership.
Why the West Is Giving Up on Individual Rights
Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with collectivism.
We Need to Do with the State What We Have Done to Slavery
While chattel slavery exists in some parts of the world, it mostly has been abolished. Perhaps we should do the same thing to the state.
The Indian Congress Conundrum: Secularism, Socialism, and the Search for a New Path
On April 4, 2024, senior leaders of the Indian National Congress (hereinafter referred to as the “Congress”) either fa
The Population Explosion Disaster that Never Happened
For more than a century, elite progressives have imposed draconian measures to curb population growth, which they said would destroy the earth. The population has grown, but the earth seems to be doing quite well, thank you.
Failing to Make the Case for Race-Based Reparations
In reviewing Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Gordon and Wanjiru Njoya point out the book's many fallacies and the lack of a coherent theory of justice by the author.