from FEE

Truth in political speech is important, but the answer to falsehoods should be more speech, not prosecution.

Catalans voted for independence, and Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy is having none of it.

Here's a hint, it has to do with the number of employees.

Equal rights for women isn't just a feminist concern; it's an economic one.

When the people who want me to disavow my friend start to turn their attention to the serious evildoers in our world, then I may begin to take them seriously.

The rule of law has largely been supplanted by the rule of chance and the rule of executive discretion.

It's a new fiscal year for the government, so that means a spate of new, terrible laws is now being enforced.

This is a classic example of the seen and the unseen.

According to the new Fraser Institute report, economic freedom is steadily increasing, and that's a good thing.

If Ashley Wilkes is the Old genteel South with its honor and traditions, Rhett Butler is indisputably the industrious, adaptable New South.

In debt and unable to maintain them properly, cities are selling off unused properties to private developers.

Most modern states have their origins in conquest and plunder.

Just like the proverbial spoonful of sugar, interesting and entertaining content can get you to important concepts.

Private-property protections promote in property holders a long-run perspective.

Treating schools as businesses isn't helpful.

The case of gun control advocates for the US to move to the Australia model for gun ownership is faulty at best.

October 1 showed the US why we need civilian guns.

The Road to Serfdom Liveblogging continues with Chapter Two: The Great Utopia.

Firearms are an excellent force multiplier that allow for weaker would-be victims to stave off stronger attackers.

What happened, Macron? You used to be cool.

There are numerous reasons to support tax havens that have nothing to do with money. What have tax hells ever done that's good?

North Korea isn't a straw man example, and socialists need to account for it.

The tax system is flogging, looting, and pillaging the most successful people.

The events in Charlottesville were horrifying and unconscionable, but more hate and intolerance is not the answer.

Blockchain innovations shift power from institutions to individuals, and governments hate that.

So long as patients are trying a drug of their own volition and free will, no government should stand in their way.

The Fed's new policies aren't revolutionary; they're slow.

JEL's essay abuses basic historical evidence to advance an ideologically motivated sanitizing of beliefs.

Forget it, Monopoly. It's Chinatown.

It's true that no parent should have to decide if they can afford healthcare for their sick child, but the Graham-Cassidy bill wouldn't have made them.

Sanctions simply impoverish ordinary people.

The establishment of an Economic Freedom Zone, would set off an explosion of growth.

The advances in technology are showing that a society of choice is more viable and practical than ever before.

Freedom is the thing. Freedom to choose, freedom to be wrong, freedom to correct our mistakes once they’ve been made.

After years of avoiding Hayek's Road to Serfdom, I have decided to dedicate the next sixteen days to liveblogging each chapter.

Government regulation leads to calls for more government regulation to fix the problems created by previous regulation.

Banning Uber isn't keeping people safe; it's sliding us further into chaos.

Public or private schools don't always work out, and that's okay.

Michigan's recent economic revival is pro-market win, and other states should take note.

"Protecting" domestic businesses from foreign competition does no favors for consumers.

Taxing the rich is politically popular, but it's actually a really bad idea.

The technology we use for simple financial tasks has been massively overhauled in the last ten years.

The response has inadvertently disincentivized students from pursuing medicine and science.

Macron is copying Germany with pro-market labor reforms.

Stop saying that!

Bitcoin ""puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today."

A life reduced to perfectly regular order, with perfect predictability, would be no life at all.

Do people exalt modern art because of cognitive biases?

Consumption is a result of growth, not the cause of growth.

Brexit garnered widespread derision from Europeans while Scotland and Catalonia doesn't.