The Calling

There is No Great Stagnation: Gas-Grill Parts Edition

As existing technology continues to get tweaked at the margins, we will live better and better lives even if traditional economic data make it seem as though we are stagnating.

15Sep2011 | | 15 comments | Continued

The Importance of Knowing the Other Side

We classical liberals should give our opponents the respect we would like them to give us. That means understanding and respecting their best arguments.

8Sep2011 | | 42 comments | Continued

Natural Disasters and Disastrous Economics

The inability to imagine the unseen is the source of a great deal of bad economics.

1Sep2011 | | 27 comments | Continued

What Do We Mean by “Big Government”?

The scale of government matters, but we cannot get so tangled up in debates about the size of federal government expenditures that we overlook the effects of changes in the scope of government power.

25Aug2011 | | 6 comments | Continued

FDR’s Advisers Knew What Rachel Maddow and Paul Krugman Don’t

Hoover can be blamed for turning what would have likely been a severe but short market correction into a deep and long Great Depression. The reason, however, is not that Hoover did nothing.

18Aug2011 | | 49 comments | Continued

Giving Back

It’s not “society” that makes rich people rich; it’s you and I — and in return we have a cornucopia of stuff that has made our lives better, easier, safer, and longer.

11Aug2011 | | 31 comments | Continued

The Bourgeois Virtues and Consumer Ethics

When people in the market display particularly virtuous behavior, we as consumers should feel obligated to reward it, and not just because we think it will encourage more of it.

4Aug2011 | | 25 comments | Continued

The Calling of Teaching

If we are to move forward to freedom, a key part of that process will take place in the classroom, where young people’s views of the world are up for grabs

28Jul2011 | | 34 comments | Continued

The Importance of Doing It Right

Just because you agree with an author’s conclusions doesn’t mean he or she has done the job well.

21Jul2011 | | 16 comments | Continued

A Battle that Everyone Wins

Google’s ability to create a meaningful competitor is what will force Facebook to innovate, even if Google+ fails in the long run.

14Jul2011 | | 26 comments | Continued

We Should Be Free Because We Are Equal

Equality should not be a dirty word for libertarians since equality of liberty and equality before the law are in our intellectual DNA.

7Jul2011 | | 20 comments | Continued

The Other Principle of Classical Liberalism

If government grants certain privileges to those who are married, it must grant them equally to all its citizens who wish to marry.

30Jun2011 | | 58 comments | Continued

Markets and Human Excellence

While not all forms of excellence command the salaries that athletes and musicians command, each serves other people in its own way and brings some reward in the marketplace.

23Jun2011 | | 8 comments | Continued

Yes, It Is a Police State

Since 9/11 the biggest threat to the American people is not radical Muslim terrorists, nor deranged domestic terrorists, but the terrorists with the blue uniforms, badges, and body armor.

16Jun2011 | | 59 comments | Continued

Capitalism as Art

Both entrepreneurship and consumption are acts of creativity, imagination, and art.

9Jun2011 | | 3 comments | Continued

Power and the Market

The ultimate countervailing power is not the State but the combination of market competition and social activism.

2Jun2011 | | 18 comments | Continued

Free Markets Are Regulated

The question is not to regulate or not to regulate, but which type of regulation – market rules or State discretion – works better.

26May2011 | | 17 comments | Continued
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