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 left’s hypocritical silence over Trudeau
Throughout the last two years is has been both fascinating and horrifying to see how quickly supposedly free people have been stripped of their rights in the name of a public [...]
The attack on comedy is no joke
Being funny is difficult but laughing is easy. Or at least, it used to be. These days, you better beware what jokes you find funny.
A Scottish politician this week used [...]
Rain Dance
To much fanfare, the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 26th such summit, is taking place in Glasgow, attracting world leaders and activists to give [...]
How (not) to lower energy prices
Energy costs are skyrocketing. The UK wholesale energy market has reached record highs with international gas prices surging as depleted reserves meet increasing demand from [...]
Immanuel Kant: libertarian?
Immanuel Kant is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Born in Königsberg, Germany, in 1724, at the advent of the Age of Enlightenment, [...]
What is conservatism?
In most Western countries, the modern political divide nominally pitches left leaning social democrats against conservatives on the centre-right. But take a closer look at [...]
Inflation in the era of QE: still a monetary phenomenon
When global central banks responded to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) with Quantitative Easing (QE), many economists, not least Austrians, foresaw a wave of inflation. [...]
The age of big-government Conservatives
It is a development that has been under way for some time: the traditional left/right political divide is no more. A poll this week shows how a supposedly right-wing PM now [...]
Covid, lockdown and the Nuremberg Defence
Between 1945 and 1949, Nuremberg, in the German state of Bavaria, was the scene of a series of military tribunals, carried out to prosecute Nazi war criminals in the [...]
The end of the world as we know it
"It’s the end of the world as we know it” sang R.E.M. in 1987. The American rock band was pondering the many disasters they were supposedly facing at the end of the cold [...]