What is a nation?
In the modern political tradition, patriotism has always been revered. Not only is pride in and devotion to country seen as a positive, but its absence is also often taken as a sign of moral deficiency. Nationalism, on the other hand, is more suspect. The nationalist identifies with the nation and nationalism can manifest as a political ideology, as it did [...]
The demonization of the right and the death of opinion polls
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison pulled off a surprise victory in the Australia election it came as a solid surprise. Morrison himself called it a ‘miracle’. After six [...]
The looming death of the Tory party
The
British Conservative Party is in crisis. Brexit has torn the party apart and
electoral annihilation looms. But the fault lines go much deeper, between on
one side those [...]
Should social media companies be regulated?
In the wake of yet another purge of conservative voices from
social media, this time the banning by Facebook of Alex Jones, Paul Joseph
Watson and others, the debate about [...]
What is progressivism?
Politicians of the left often refer to themselves as progressives. But the term is not necessarily well understood: the ideal of progress is of course not exclusive to the [...]
A brief history of the US Dollar hegemony
The US Dollar is the worlds "reserve currency": the means of exchange which is accepted as payment for almost all international transactions, and the fact that US currency [...]
Against rent control
This week, Britain’s Conservative government announced that it will consult on the abolition of Section 21 of the Housing Act, which allows landlords to evict tenants [...]
Addressing the potential power vacuum of US withdrawal
By Hala Mounib
Interventionist policy has deep roots in U.S. history. From the struggle to limit the expansion of communism in the 1900s to the several operations [...]
Do minimum wages work? A praxeological perspective
In April 1.8 million Brits got a pay rise when the National Living Wage, the new name for the minimum wage, went up by the most ever, a whopping 4.9%. It marked 20 years since [...]
The crisis of capitalism is a lack of capitalism
Capitalism is in crisis. That much is clear. The capitalist order stands accused of having caused a torrent of problems from the global financial crisis to inequality, [...]
The predictable capitulation of the Powell Fed
In 2008, when the Federal Reserve resorted to the radical step of quantitative easing to combat the Global Financial Crisis, few would have imagined that more than a decade [...]