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Government Censorship in New Zealand and The Christchurch Massacre
Government censorship will only reduce the ability to understand the causes of people guided by anti-capitalist ideas.
How Capitalism Saved Sweden From The Evils of Socialism
Fortunately for its citizens, but unfortunately for those who think Sweden is still socialist, the Swedish government, more or less by universal consensus, turned sharply back toward capitalism beginning in about 1995.
The Brexit Dilemma: Laissez-Faire Capitalism or Regulatory Statism?
The best solution would be if the British authorities followed a policy of laissez-faire.
Tax Havens Put European Union States to Shame
Despite some of the world’s highest taxes, Europe’s welfare states are fiscally unsustainable, suffering from slowly worsening structural deficits.
Slavery: What They Didn’t Teach in My High School
African tribes who captured other tribes sold them into slavery.
Socialism Worked in Venezuela
History demonstrates unequivocally that socialism works to destroy liberty and prosperity.
Sweden Isn’t Socialist
For years, I've heard American leftists say Sweden is proof that socialism works, that it doesn't have to turn out as badly as the Soviet Union or Cuba or Venezuela did. But that's not what Swedish historian Johan Norberg says in a new documentary and Stossel TV...
Fidel Castro’s Communist “Revolution” Made Cuba Worse Off
The road not taken by Cuba, that of not having the revolution, is one on which the country would have been healthier and richer than it is now.
The Lesson of 25 Years of Israeli-Palestinian “Peacemaking” In The Middle East
We need to take seriously the lesson of the last 25 years. It is because the peace process negated the principle of moral judgment, that it enabled the Palestinian movement to subjugate, indoctrinate, and impoverish its people while continuing to attack Israel.
Disparities Galore: Only Political Inequality is Unjust
The only kind of equality consistent with liberty is equality before the law — which doesn’t require that people be in fact equal.
The Jamal Khashoggi Execution Reveals The Anti-Capitalist Nature of The Saudi Arabia Regime
Any rational view of our interests would recognize that Iran — along with Saudi Arabia — is a wellspring of the jihadist movement.
The Lesson of the Afghanistan War: 17 Years Later
The United States could have defeated the Islamist forces in Afghanistan, but we did not believe we had a moral right to.
“Democratic Socialism” Destroys
“You don’t need the government to dictate how to live your life, how much money you should make, how your family should be treated.”
Europe Deregulates Travel, Railroad and Bus Markets
A transport revolution is occurring all around Europe thanks to deregulation measures by the EU and national governments, which makes it increasingly possible for private businesses to enter railway and bus markets and make it evident that transportation doesn’t have to be – or better said, shouldn’t be, a public good provided by the state.
U.S. Is Morally Justified In Leaving The United Nations Human Rights Council
The Trump administration was right to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council. But to truly uphold the principle of rights, the U.S. itself needs to take seriously the moral difference between freedom and tyranny.
China Demonstrates That The Welfare State is a Major Threat To U.S. National Security
China demonstrated that our government debt, built over half a century of excessive welfare-state spending, is a major threat to our national security.
A Trade War Won’t Be Good For the Dollar
A trade war may also finally prompt China to do the smart thing and dump its trillion-plus holdings of U.S.
Israel’s Chief Enemy Is Also Ours
Israel, the region’s only free society, faces a virulent movement fighting to eradicate individual freedom and to impose totalitarian rule in the name of Islam — the jihadist cause — and Iran is a leader of that cause.
Trump “Victories” on Trade are Anything But
Elimination of the trade deficit will be a hollow victory if it results in a significant reduction in living standards.
European Bank HSBC Abandons Financing Fossil Fuels
Banks to stop financing fossil fuel development: Sound investment decisions vs. virtue signaling?
Still Haunting The World: Karl Marx and Marxism 200 Years Later
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany.
The Trump Tariff is Really a Gigantic Tax on American Consumers
A tariff is essentially a tax that will be paid by domestic consumers.
Socialists Must Own Up to Venezuela
The degree of misery imposed by socialism is proportionate to the degree of redistribution.
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