Month: May 2018
Capitalism’s ungrateful heirs
‘If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain’. This maxim is [...]
The Gulag: depraved, brutal, ignored and forgotten
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago is a tough read. Published in 1973, the three-volume masterpiece is a harrowing account of arrests, [...]
An antidote to chaos: how Jordan Peterson can help libertarians
Jordan Peterson is not a libertarian. At least, he is no anarchist. Peterson believes there is a role for government, in providing a social security net and [...]
The Greece bailout: when you run out of other people’s money
The final chapter in the Greek bailout tragedy is supposed to play out over the summer. After joining the EU and subsequently the Euro, Greece had been living [...]
Did socialism destroy Venezuela? No, a lack of capitalism did
‘That wasn’t real socialism’ is the go-to excuse from the hard left whenever another left-wing regime bites the dust. While we may smile at the apparent [...]
The case against inheritance tax
‘Why not fund the welfare state with a 100% inheritance tax?’ So asked Guardian columnist Abi Wilkinson in a column from July 2017. The concept of steep [...]
The end of monetary life support
In late April the yield on the US 10-year Treasury bond broke 3% for the first time in more than four years. Back then it was the fear of the consequences of [...]
Equal access and the market for “social justice”
In Britain we have something called Equality Act, a piece of legislation which aims to protect people with a range of characteristics and provide “equal [...]