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Basically, they haven't bound themselves to an enormous political structure that makes trade agreements very difficult to conclude.

Hip-hop and libertarianism are a match made in free market heaven.

Public universities should be transparent about how they’re spending money.

Isn't it time to inject some competition into the system?

Let’s remember why markets are good at forecasting events.

If two individuals agree to fight in an octagon for money, more power to them!

I have always been, at my core, a lover of liberty, even before I became politically conscious.

And embrace collectivism?

Economics seems to be most likely delivered to today’s high school students through an advanced placement course. While students will certainly learn the basic concepts of economics, they will most likely do so by way of the endless supply and demand curves relating to the avocado market, or problem sets using the nondescript “Firm A” or “Firm B.”

Innocent people end up pleading guilty just to avoid the weeks of jail time associated with the bail they can’t afford.

When it comes to opposition to free trade and support for protectionism, not too much has changed.

The world’s scarcest resources, entrepreneurs and scientists, are working to economize the most abundant resources, namely low skilled labor. All of that entrepreneurial and scientific talent is being wasted due to bad government policies.

If things turned out differently, today’s Georgia Bulldogs might be playing in a kennel instead of a stadium.

Despite how fervently I disagree with many of my friends on either side of the political aisle, there is one topic that seems to unite even my most worthy ideological opponents: Game of Thrones.

Over the weekend, I heard something that I never imagined possible.

Congratulations to the Nissan workers who were alert to these and other perils of unionism.

I get everything I want and then someone thanks me.

This sort of out-of-the-box thinking is what we need.

Mises: "The Nazi code results in endless civil wars."

This is a question of individual morality.

Even the OECD admitted that European nations would grow faster if the burden of government was reduced.

Are big schools sucking the life out of our children?

And most of you don't even use a case.

In 1977, John Holt launched the first-ever newsletter for homeschooling families, Growing Without Schooling. At that time, Holt became the unofficial leader of the nascent homeschooling movement, supporting parents in the process of removing their children from school even before the practice was fully legalized in all states by 1993.

Without prices, there was no way to discern economic truth.

No idea is too insane to be off limits to a group infected with a longing to rule.

Is any product truly “local?”

There is absolutely nothing I will do today that could have been done 100 years ago.

All other life-enhancing habits can flow out of conscious living.

Western powers were determined to push this stuff on China, and the government was determined to stop them.

Newspeak is a crucial instrument of totalitarian power.

Free, unstructured play time is rapidly disappearing from our culture.

All terrible government policies have unintended consequences. When it comes to the war on drugs, the blowback has come in the form of the opiate crisis.

Alexa’s approach worked ten times better than ours.

We have here yet another example of ideology masquerading as analysis.

Why can’t Apple use its billions to create a cable that won’t fall apart?

Two leaders, both suffering from impulse control issues

Lil Yachty’s largest hurdle, his mediocre music career, is also the foundation of his fame. Had his vast popularity been fueled by his modeling/marketing career he would face far fewer issues with maintaining his status. But since he continues to use the primary title of “rapper,” his reputation will always be closely linked to the popularity of the music he is producing.

Without the barriers to entry that exist in other formerly established industries, women have been able to get in on the ground floor and are starting businesses that are truly unique to the female perspective.

Large scale illegal immigration is over.

Historically, relational templates and structures were centralized and trust-based.

It’s both messy and beautiful

Yachts are avoiding France for the same reason that entrepreneurs are avoiding France.

De Tocqueville warned us long ago.

The people, not the regime, will suffer from the imposition of sanctions.

Put simply, these devices are breaching the rights of our young people. We all have human rights, regardless of race, sex or age. These include the right to a private life, free movement and peaceful assembly under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

What a vibrant intellectual culture looks like

Perhaps the reason Armstrong was misunderstood by later generations is that they had moved away from this positive, work-oriented ethic toward one of grievance-mongering and victimhood.

Right-wing authoritarian populism has twice as much of a presence as left-wing authoritarian populism, but the latter has seen its support double since 2010 while the former has stagnated.

Has Uber yielded to "gratuity creep"?