Classical Liberalism
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
A Canadian shop mailed me the hard-to-find part to save my wife’s old blender. How do prices help strangers cooperate on a scale no one can engineer?
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Fear Is Testing Freedom Again
America answered the terror of 9/11 by making every citizen more visible to the state. Will our genuine fears of AI be used to erode liberty and privacy even further?
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism
Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds’ traces the intellectual evolution of the New Right and the ideas driving its rejection of liberalism.
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The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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Postliberalism Gets the ‘Common Good’ Wrong
Individual liberty is an essential feature of the constitutional order, not a competing good. To claim otherwise, critics must reject or rewrite our Founding.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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Can a Freely Given Coconut Begin Civilization?
Trust precedes trade. Our natural empathy, our desire to see others do well, cultivates social order and generates the wealth of nations.
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Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
A Canadian shop mailed me the hard-to-find part to save my wife’s old blender. How do prices help strangers cooperate on a scale no one can engineer?
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Fear Is Testing Freedom Again
America answered the terror of 9/11 by making every citizen more visible to the state. Will our genuine fears of AI be used to erode liberty and privacy even further?
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism
Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds’ traces the intellectual evolution of the New Right and the ideas driving its rejection of liberalism.
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The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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Postliberalism Gets the ‘Common Good’ Wrong
Individual liberty is an essential feature of the constitutional order, not a competing good. To claim otherwise, critics must reject or rewrite our Founding.
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Flock Cameras vs. Freedom: Welcome to the Warrantless Panopticon
Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment — creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go.
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Can a Freely Given Coconut Begin Civilization?
Trust precedes trade. Our natural empathy, our desire to see others do well, cultivates social order and generates the wealth of nations.
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Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.