Author: CreativeDeduction

Human progress and the price of light

In 2018, the Yale economist William Nordhaus was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic [...]

Why do young people hate capitalism?

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) has released its fourth Annual Report on US Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism. And [...]

Portugal’s recovery: a socialist success story?

A few years ago, Portugal was the P in PIGS, the quartet of Southern European countries who were hit hardest by the Great Depression and the Euro crisis [...]

The gift from fossil fuels

CO2 emissions are the consequence of producing energy. It is true for animals, including humans, who breathe out the much-maligned gas which is produced in [...]

What the climate strikers really want

Across the world, children have been skipping school to take to the streets. They are protesting to demand an end to the use of fossil fuels as part of the [...]

No, warlords would not take over a stateless society

By Bradley Thomas Perhaps the most common question faced by advocates of a stateless society behind “who will build the roads?” is concern about [...]

The (not so hidden) cost of regulation

Proponents of regulation often look primarily at the “benefits” of such regulation, but in every aspect of regulation there is a trade-off between pushing [...]

When the left calls us racists, what they are really expressing is contempt for Western culture

John Cleese has long enjoyed iconic status in the British entertainment industry, but when he tweeted that London ‘was not really an English city any [...]

Fake climate news – and who is spreading it

Google ‘fake climate change news’ and you will find a slew of stories about how to stop the spread of false stories about climate change. Many focus on [...]

The Welfare State: a failed experiment

The welfare state, many claim, is the crowning achievement of modern civilisation. Institutions of the state stand as guarantor of equality of opportunity [...]