For many of us who have studied, deeply, the works of Adam Smith, J.S. Mill, Hayek, von Mises, Sowell, Mankiw, Garrison, McCloskey, and others with…
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Because I’ve been cautioning that libertarians need to be pragmatic and we should avoid the caricatures of others that we are subjected to online and…
A supposed “tolerant progressive” wrote online that Libertarians are “invariably men with immature, selfish attitudes.” When asked why she also invoked Ayn Rand on a…
Tonight I read a column in which a writer generalized so broadly about libertarianism that I was shaking my fist in anger at the computer…
The narrative is set, and as a rhetorician, I appreciate the value of a good story in shaping public debate. The rich are getting richer,…
This campaign season in the United States is already producing some meme myths on social media. One I keep seeing is the “90% tax rate”…
NOTE August 8, 2017: The marginal and effective U.S. Tax rates mentioned in this 2011 post have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty (Paris School…
Many people critical of “capitalism” have no idea what the word means. Before returning to graduate school, I worked in real estate and finance. I…
A lot has happened in the last few months, and even now I don’t find myself particularly motivated to write on most of the events.…
With the end of the recent Supreme Court term and some of its more ludicrous decisions, I thought it was time to reread the Bill…