Paternalism
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Foreign Aid, Reparations, And Economic Growth
Western elites repeatedly call for “reparations” payments to former Western colonies ostensibly to lift them from poverty. By turning these countries into large welfare recipients, these elites perpetuate the very poverty they claim to decry.
Education: Where Liberty Is Winning Some Important Battles
Despite efforts by elites to promote state-sponsored education, people are revolting against the statist model. From private schools to home schooling and other alternatives, people have not forgotten that liberty and learning fit well together.
The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises
Academic historians and archivists have been captured by the hard left and the DEI industry. Not only will the current trends make them bad historians, but it also makes them intolerant people. Mises knew better.
The Stewards of History Desperately Need Mises
Academic historians and archivists have been captured by the hard left and the DEI industry. Not only will the current trends make them bad historians, but it also makes them intolerant people. Mises knew better.
The problem with ‘work or starve’
Critics of capitalism claim that private enterprise gives workers the unhappy choice of either working difficult, low-paying jobs or outright starving. The claim is false and the history of capitalism tells a different story.
The problem with ‘work or starve’
Critics of capitalism claim that private enterprise gives workers the unhappy choice of either working difficult, low-paying jobs or outright starving. The claim is false and the history of capitalism tells a different story.
It Didn’t Begin with LBJ: How the US Became a Transfer Society
In this review of The Birth of the Transfer Society, by economists Terry Anderson and Peter Hill, Eduard Bucher looks at the origins of transfer policies in the US and how they developed into the monster they are today.
Welfare Outside of the State
Welfare is usually seen as state-run activity. Yet, as Mises and others have noted, state-sponsored welfare undermines the economy and expands government power. Private charity is the only system that is sustainable and just.
Countering the Neoconservative Defense of the British Empire
Not surprisingly, neoconservatives have tried to rehabilitate the British Empire, calling it benign and a civilizing force in Africa and Asia. Like all other empires, however, it was held together by violence and subjugation.
