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Breaking down forced schooling and allowing choice and freedom—now that is a growth mindset.

Every tax cut in recent decades has been denigrated as a trickle-down fraud benefiting the rich at the expense of the rest.

The author Jim Powell famously identified these three women as essential to the modern libertarian movement: Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand.

Human beings are not a bane to our planet but its greatest resource.

Income Share Agreements were first proposed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1955 as an alternative to standard student loans.

Human beings react to every rule, regulation, and order governments impose, and their reactions result in outcomes that can be quite different than the outcomes lawmakers intended.

The world is not in danger of being overpopulated, so why do so many insist it is?

Current climate predictions can be terrifying if you don't know about the previous dire climate claims that amounted to nothing.

Outrage has replaced reason in the debate surrounding biodiversity and poisoned the way we talk about workable solutions.

It has never been easier or more enjoyable for parents to present these ideas to their kids and help them to deepen their knowledge throughout their teenage years.

There are many environmental facts that run contrary to popular belief. Here are five of them.

By legalizing products and keeping taxes low, consumers won’t have to turn to black markets in the first place.

CNN’s description suggests the event may be closer to Greta Thunberg’s “I Want You to Panic” approach than a level-headed analysis.

Economic prosperity and climate security cannot be considered in isolated compartments.

Poor diets are the number one risk factor in the global burden of disease: they account for one in five deaths globally.

The biggest secret to success is that there is no secret.

A cherished Pentagon boondoggle, the F-35 program is the most expensive weapons system in history.

We now live in a world where a single individual can dictate the behavior of a country. Is that the world you want to live in?

To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, here are six things you didn’t know about Ho Chi Minh.

The real explanation for the rising incomes of workers over the past decades has little to do with either unions or government regulations.

Absent any serious entitlement reform, the laws of economics will eventually crush political promises to Social Security and Medicare.

A workplace in which employees at all levels are communicating more efficiently and more clearly is both happier and more productive.

This difference between “potential” development and real development has been stable and constant over the last 10 years.

Few discussions on the economic outcomes of Brexit find their way into Brexit media discourse. Why?

Kristian Niemietz's book, "Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies," is an incredible book and should be compulsory reading at schools and universities, where today the song sung by anti-capitalists reigns supreme.

Free cities at the hot spots: Would that be the solution for refugees and migrants?

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of several eminent female mathematicians in Europe. Yet mathematics today remains a largely male field.

The privilege of living in the US affords poor people more material resources than the averages for most of the world’s richest nations.

Gun homicides have declined sharply in recent decades, but polls show most Americans are unaware of this fact.

The president will undoubtedly continue to maintain this bizarre balancing act, but a fall isn't far away.

Sen. Sanders doesn’t need a new job in order to reform our criminal justice system. He just needs to do his current job well.

Bliss is good for the mind and body, it’s the antidote to the unabating bombardment of noise, stress, and distractions we deal with the other 51 weeks of the year.

When something is owned by everyone, it is owned by no one.

The truth is that corporations are constantly investing dollars back into their business operations, rather than simply sitting on their capital.

The case for liberty is hidden in plain sight in our phones and a million other things our lives depend on.

Trying to create added stakeholder rights, ex nihilo, violates the rightfully owned property of shareholders.

Progressive economists and intellectuals saw these job losses as a eugenic service to the larger population.

Big firms can bear the costs of complying with regulations much more easily than small firms.

It is the fiduciary responsibility of the directors to protect such assets…and maybe even the entire free market system, too.

A multitude of workers, spread across the world, had to contribute their creativity and effort to make Peruvian asparagus an inexpensive reality in Virginia. Behold—and applaud—the incredible, marvelous, wonderful global economy.

When doctors are miserable, patients suffer.

The ultimate foundation for gun rights is not, has never been, and cannot ever be statistics. We can use statistics to strengthen our case for gun rights, but they cannot be the pillar on which everything rests.

Often overlooked is just how vital honesty and trust are for a well-functioning market.

Kids participating in Utah's Children’s Entrepreneur Market are being ordered by government officials to pay sales tax on their small businesses. But one activist says children are exempt from such taxes.

How social democracy works in Brazil: it takes from the poor and gives to the rich.

Hunger and poverty are not fought through development aid but through entrepreneurship and capitalism.

The English YouTuber Bald and Bankrupt, using a small GoPro and smartphone, provides millions of viewers with an in-depth look at Eastern Europe.

How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?

In many ways, the Business Roundtable statement is a textbook example of free markets operating as they should.

A college’s success may be less about the quality of its instruction and more about the talent it can recruit.