from FEE

Trump may very well be a dictator, but he inherited the position from a very long line of dictatorial presidents.

In a world filled with strong opinions and hot takes, it's important to take the time to form considered, well-informed stances.

In the past decade, several scholars have produced works that highlight Lewis' libertarian views.

We've got a long way to go, let's start here.

Maybe popular thinking is mistaken; maybe Mises was right.

Kids are conditioned from birth to submit to authority.

With companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon getting involved in payment transactions, banking as we know it could dramatically change.

How does having less make you richer? It Doesn't.

Through decades of explicit public policy, the government strongly encouraged the sort of suburban sprawl unique to America.

To say otherwise is to either grossly misunderstand or deliberately distort his meaning.

Trust in Bitcoin has never been higher.

A recent study shows that a third of children worldwide spend less than an hour outside per day.

The penalty for quitting shouldn’t be incarceration or death

It is impossible to plan for an entire national economy comprised of individual beings.

What is so restorative about meditation is that it gives the rational part of my mind a break.

A lesson from my twin boys.

While some of the rise in gas prices can be blamed on hurricane-related supply disruption, regulatory burdens play an even bigger role.

The UK's Labour Party has a fundamental misunderstanding of the labor market and the gig economy, and it's leading to bad policy proposals.

Today, we might not approve of their methods but the result back then was improved criminal justice.

Good job, Canada, this new tax punishes some of society’s lowest wage earners.

Healthcare subsidies will get slightly less complicated; unfortunately the market is no freer than before.

The state is the true Antichrist. That is where humanity's problem lies.

Requiring permission set back communications in the United States for decades.

Who can even throw a dinner party anymore? Really you can’t.

And that's okay. You don't need to. And neither does governments.

Benjamin Constant is a much-neglected name in modern freedom philosophy, but he is well worth celebrating on his 250th birthday.

The obsession with presidential legacies is just another excuse the government uses to coerce individuals.

Getting rid of sugar quotas was a good first step. However, the European Union now needs to be consequential and eliminate all market distortions.

The ballooning price of healthcare is largely because of government meddling.

Over 50 years, the Garden State has evolved from tax heaven to tax hell.

There are so many better ways to help people out of poverty.

An Atlanta hospital is penalizing a two-year-old for the sins of his father.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarded compulsory union dues for public-sector workers, giving it the chance to correct the mistake it made on this subject in 1977.

Economic mobility – and the subsequent improvement of health outcomes – must come from the free market.

Market-based decisions may not always be entirely rational, but there is almost no incentive for governmental decisions to be rational, either.

With the appearance of the printing press, rooms of monks were put out of work in perhaps the first technological layoff ever recorded.

Ending the War on Drugs would have a significant impact on the number of gun fatalities across the board.

Rates of teen depression and anxiety are skyrocketing, and the infantilization of teens by traditional schooling is a big reason.

This belief that big companies always have the technological upper hand is simply untrue.

When your political dreams leap beyond reality, you turn to violence. The Left and Right both go this direction.

Women in the developing world don't need patronizing and technocratic aid. They need freedom.

We hate the idea that there is no explanation for something, and we go to extreme lengths to find one.

As the Great October Socialist Revolution reaches its centennial anniversary, it's important to remember the devastation it wrought.

Humans are hardwired for learning

Dealing with seeing things that offend you is a vital life lesson that we're withholding from college students when we micro-manage Halloween costumes.

Jobs, on net, don't get destroyed by free trade and competition.

It’s almost as if Puerto Rico is a perfect storm of bad policy.

There is a lot of angst in the U.K. about what will happen during the divorce process.

Liberty is not the outgrowth of homogeneity. It is the solution to the seeming problem of heterogeneity

The logic of the human mind will prevail over paternalist dictates and the hubris of the social engineers.