Archive: Articles

Permission to Plagiarize
Sorry, academics, but you can’t excuse away plagiarism by seeking permission after the fact from the party you copied.
Phillip Magness | March 25, 2024
Remembering Hayek’s Remarkable Nobel Lecture
Stockholm fired a shot across the Establishment bow by recognizing Hayek, but it was an honor the great man from Vienna richly deserved.
Lawrence W. Reed | March 19, 2024
Congress Should Reject Biden’s $7.3T Budget Proposal
We don’t need it, we can’t afford it.
Brady Leonard | March 19, 2024
Louisiana Embraces Gun Rights
LA joins 27 other states in making constitutional carry the law of the land.
Brady Leonard | March 12, 2024
Debunking All the Main Arguments for Antitrust Laws
Antitrust laws are built on nothing but poor reasoning and misguided apprehensions.
Walter Block | March 12, 2024
‘Laissez-Faire’ Sweden Had the Lowest COVID Mortality in Europe
Many more people in Sweden are alive today because Anders Tegnell understands the economic lesson of secondary consequences better than many economists.
Jon Miltimore | March 12, 2024
Why the Meiji Restoration Was Pivotal for Japan
Meiji Japan was not a liberal paradise. But the country in 1900 was notably freer, more industrialized and prosperous, and substantially more modern than it had been just three decades earlier.
Lawrence W. Reed | March 5, 2024
Myanmar’s Draft Shows How Not to Run a Military
Conscription is forced labor, and a particularly egregious type of forced labor at that. It has no place in a free society.
Cruz Marquis | March 5, 2024
Schools With “Radical Politics” Must Be Tolerated in a Free Society
In a free market, schools that focus on socialist ideology and “radical politics” could exist.
Kerry McDonald | February 27, 2024
Javier Milei Delivers Argentina’s First Surplus in Over a Decade
The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn’t done in more than two decades—run a budget surplus—seems like a newsworthy event. So why the silence?
Jon Miltimore | February 27, 2024
A Covid Casualty You May Not Have Heard Of
R.I.P. Evinrude Outboard Motors 1907-2020
Brady Leonard | February 27, 2024
French Language Czar Champions Tougher Laws on Signage in Quebec
The Quebec government is determined to preserve the French language in the province, and they’re willing to waste resources and trample people’s liberties to do it.
Patrick Carroll | February 20, 2024