libertarianism

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.

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

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.

Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.

The famous New York Yankees baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is credited with the saying “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

The number one problem of all public debate about politics and economics is the failure to name the state. If this would change, so would public opinion.

Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations.

We are living in a world of the anti-liberal counter-attack against individual liberty, free markets and limited government.

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.

When collectivization through the state purports and desires to serve the poor and less fortunate, it will, as a matter of practice, be operated in the interests of the rich and powerful.

Republicans in Congress appear to be at an impasse in their efforts to reform health care programs.

Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.”