Why a tolerant society is not a free society
Individual freedom is the libertarian ideal, the abstract value which guides moral action. As a political idea, libertarianism emerged in the latter part of the 19th century from liberalism, the overarching political paradigm to come from the Enlightenment. Liberalism centred the individual, both as the architect of his own destiny through his faculty for [...]
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 [...]
Is taxation theft?
Taxation is theft. For those who follow a strict definition
of private property rights there is little doubt: the morality of taking that
which belongs to other people [...]