Political Theory
Oxfam’s Hypocrisy on Private Wealth
By Oxfam's methods, anyone with a few bucks in the bank is causing poverty for the bottom 10%. Oxfam, of course, has much more than a few bucks.
Inequality Doesn’t Create Poverty
The Antidote to Marxist Literary Criticism
In a new book Literature and Liberty, Allen Mendenhall brings a fresh eye to literary criticism — a discipline long marred by doctrinaire Marxism.
Week in Review: January 14, 2017
The nation braces itself for the inauguration of a new president. Politics, however, will not cure what ails us.
No Country Should Be Bigger Than This
What European Integration Should Look Like
The European Union could have been a mere union of states committed to increasing free trade and free movement. But, it has become nothing of the sort.
Mexicans Are Blaming “Neoliberalism” for Socialism’s Failures
A state monopoly on the oil industry has been impoverishing Mexicans for decades. Yet, the market is blamed for the economy's woes.
Jeff Sessions’s Drug War May End What’s Left of States’ Rights
The Drug War has become a linchpin in the fight against continued federal centralization of power. Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of the fight.
The “Curse” of Labor-Saving Machinery Is Nothing New
Amazon's new cashier-less and staff-less store is just the latest move in a long history of innovations that have made workers obsolete.