classical liberalism

Today, the media and a variety of more serious public policy publications are awash in articles and essays insisting that the postwar “neoliberal” era has finally and inescapably come to an end, with a far more “progressive” and socialist system the way of the future.

The Austrian School of Economics has been one of the most original and insightful approaches to economic understanding over the last century and a half.

Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations.

The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions.

The competitive market economy is a powerful institutional mechanism for bringing human ingenuity, energy and creativity to bear to improve both the material and cultural circumstances of multitudes of people around the world.

Nobody likes paying taxes.

The history of liberty and prosperity is inseparable from the practice of free enterprise and respect for the rule of law.

One of the most accusatory and negative words currently in use in various politically “progressive” circles is that of “Neo-Liberalism.”

Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century.

A harrowing experience through Lithuania’s Soviet Era prisons is a reminder of the horrors of the regime and the threats standing even today.

Almost all Americans seem to acknowledge the failures of the government school system; today’s disagreements and debates are confined only to causes and proposed solutions.

A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.

[First posted at The American Culture.] Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic cultural division in the contemporary United States. One might well call it…