Liberty

One of the issues that confronts the friends of freedom is how best to make the case for liberty as a political idea and ideal and as a policy proposal.

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America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological revivalism calling for a turn away from freedom and the open society.

As the NBA continues to protect its business interests, the league’s biggest star, Lebron James, is on a crusade of his own.

Chinese economic liberalization has been responsible for the biggest mass movement out of extreme poverty in human history.

If you subscribe to Netflix and care about the future of human liberty, I urge you right now to search and find the documentary called The Pursuit, newly on the lineup of this subscription service.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.”

Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #204 of the In The Tank Podcast. This episode features work from Nature Communications, the Cato Institute, and the Goldwater Institute.

It is never possible to know beforehand or with full certainty whether right ideas will win out in a particular place and at any particular time.

Simon Newcomb’s conclusions, after a century and a half more of failed government interferences of almost every imaginable form and type, stand as even more reasonable than when he penned them: those in government should simply leave people alone. 

Ever since I read Stephen Davies’s provocative article, I’ve been thinking about his main proposal. He suggests that the term individualist should be revived.

In a country that is both democratic and socialistic, we might suspect that crafty politicians will run for office by promising more and more free stuff.

You can believe that socialism is wonderful, as apparently many people do, and no one will stop you.