If America Were Totalitarian, Where Would You Want to Live?
Suppose that one evening as the sun was setting and dusk was settling in, a strange mist fell over the United States that resulted…
Out of Control Government and Isaiah’s Job
It is very difficult to be a classical liberal or libertarian and not experience bouts of disappointment, frustration, and outright pessimism. The world around…
Would You Abdicate If You Could Be the Dictator?
Leonard E. Read, the founding and long-serving first president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), once told a story about when he first…
In the Beginning: The Mont Pelerin Society, 1947
Seventy-five years ago, there occurred an important event in the post–World War II revival of free-market liberal ideas. Over the first ten days of…
Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer
Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Second World War, Austrian-born economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published one of his most famous books, Capitalism, Socialism,…
Paternalists Plan a New International Political Consensus
The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The…
Ludwig von Mises’s Free Market Agenda for a Postwar Ukraine
Our television screens and social media sites are filled with the images of death and destruction as the Russian army continues its devastating advance…
Government Planning Brings neither Freedom, Prosperity, nor Equality
America is in the grip of a serious counterrevolution against the ideas and ideals upon which the country was founded. Whether it concerns fears…
Resisting the Market Process Undermines Freedom and Prosperity
The free market often seems a hard sell. The resistance and opposition to its seemingly straightforward case emerges and persists, over and over again….
Winning Freedom Requires Some Radical Solutions
Suppose that there was a button in front of you that if you pushed, it would, in one instant, abolish all the governmental controls…