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Opinion
Self-Improvement Is Inherently Pro-Liberty
The number-one bestselling book in the world last week was Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good…
Read More » Unpopular Truths Need to Be Told
“Tell the people what is honestly believed to be true. Disregard votes. Pay no attention to popularity. ‘To thine own…
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Call Off the Call-Out Culture War
You don’t hear much about “call-out culture” anymore. The term has been supplanted by “cancel culture.” This is unfortunate, because…
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Individualist Feminism Versus Collectivist Feminism
Feminism is often considered a single homogenous ideology to either endorse or oppose. However, from the beginning, the movement has…
Read More » How Atheist Anti-Capitalists Miss the Point
If an economist sees the handiwork of God in the economy, does that invalidate his economic arguments from a secular…
Read More »Herbert Spencer’s Two Types of Society
According to the philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), there are two types of society: militant and industrial. In his 1884 book…
Read More »It’s Either Commands or Contracts
“There are two different kinds of social cooperation,” wrote Ludwig von Mises: one based on contract (voluntary agreement and reciprocity),…
Read More »Running Away from Our Own Revolution
In 1961, a group of students gathered for a seminar in a mansion in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, which was then…
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Cato’s Letters Explained “the Glorious Principles of Liberty” to the American Founders
In the twilight of his life, John Adams reflected on the American Revolution in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, writing:…
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What Ayn Rand Meant by “Americanism”
In 1946, a Russian immigrant to America tried to remind her fellow citizens what America was all about. A publication…
Read More » The Iron Law of Kleptocracy
To develop his theory of government, John Locke posited an origin story of the state. He explained legitimate government as…
Read More »The Education of Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt was not an economics professor. Yet he was one of the greatest economics educators in history. Through his…
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What the American Founders Meant by Equality
The Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Thanks in part to that prestigious endorsement, “equality”…
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How to Create Like a Bastiat
What would it take to once again make liberty “an idea whose time has come”? Or as Leonard Read put…
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Keysmiths for Liberty
Most libertarians are converts. Very few were inculcated from childhood in the freedom philosophy. Most of us were indoctrinated by…
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