Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
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Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
Cities cannot be engineered from above — only grown from real human demand.
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States Are Reaffirming Property Rights at the Racetrack
First use establishes property rights, even if neighbors don’t agree. States are formalizing owners’ claims to protect them from “aesthetic interventionism.”
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Bureaucracies, conferences, and consultants do nothing for those most impacted by environmental degradation. Real progress in the Amazon starts with secure property rights, not paternalism.
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Let Neighborhoods Work: Bans on Home Businesses Are Out of Control
Building a business out of your garage is a quintessentially American origin story. In many places, it’s also against the law.
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The Southern Conservative Who Warned Against Authoritarian Temptation
Before fascism and communism were historical shorthand, Richard Weaver analyzed their shared intellectual roots. His insights on moral humility speak directly to today’s culture-war politics.
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The Savage Heart of Socialism: Fear and Loathing Among the Democratic Socialists of America
Seizing the means of production requires control of not only private businesses, natural resources, and factories, but human bodies and minds.
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Sanctions Didn’t Destroy Venezuela’s Economy — Socialism Did
Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
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Obamacare’s Costly Illusion of Affordability: From Subsidies to Serfdom
The ACA obscures the true costs of healthcare. The government shutdown revealed just how much.
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The Second Information Revolution: How AI Makes Liberal Societies Both Stronger and Weaker
Large language models have sparked historic shifts in the economics of knowledge, upsetting the balance between accessibility, privacy, and power.
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Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
Gratitude is the first principle of prosperity. Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.
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Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
Cities cannot be engineered from above — only grown from real human demand.
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States Are Reaffirming Property Rights at the Racetrack
First use establishes property rights, even if neighbors don’t agree. States are formalizing owners’ claims to protect them from “aesthetic interventionism.”
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Bureaucracies, conferences, and consultants do nothing for those most impacted by environmental degradation. Real progress in the Amazon starts with secure property rights, not paternalism.
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Let Neighborhoods Work: Bans on Home Businesses Are Out of Control
Building a business out of your garage is a quintessentially American origin story. In many places, it’s also against the law.
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The Southern Conservative Who Warned Against Authoritarian Temptation
Before fascism and communism were historical shorthand, Richard Weaver analyzed their shared intellectual roots. His insights on moral humility speak directly to today’s culture-war politics.
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The Savage Heart of Socialism: Fear and Loathing Among the Democratic Socialists of America
Seizing the means of production requires control of not only private businesses, natural resources, and factories, but human bodies and minds.
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Sanctions Didn’t Destroy Venezuela’s Economy — Socialism Did
Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
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Obamacare’s Costly Illusion of Affordability: From Subsidies to Serfdom
The ACA obscures the true costs of healthcare. The government shutdown revealed just how much.
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The Second Information Revolution: How AI Makes Liberal Societies Both Stronger and Weaker
Large language models have sparked historic shifts in the economics of knowledge, upsetting the balance between accessibility, privacy, and power.
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•
Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
Gratitude is the first principle of prosperity. Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.