There is no country in the world that has a higher birth rate than it had in 1960, and in the less developed world as a whole the birth rate has approximately halved.
This was socialism without the state. There is no doubt that it would have continued to expand and evolve.
Those of libertarian bent often prove more generous than those of a socialist persuasion: where the socialist feels that it is government’s job to look after the poor using taxes, libertarians think i...
Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
What if morality itself was not handed down from the Judeo-Christian God as a prescription? And was not even the imitation of a Platonic ideal, but was a spontaneous thing produced by social interacti...
When I go into the local superstore, I never see people driven to misery by the impossibility of choice. I see people choosing.
When I write or speak about falling child mortality in Africa today, I can be sure I will get a response along exactly these Malthusian lines: but surely it’s a bad thing if you stop poor people dying...
You put garbage in the rubbish bin; you keep junk in the attic or garage.
All gods and all superstitions emerge from within human minds, and go through characteristic but unplanned transformations as history unfolds. Thus even the most top–down feature of human culture is a...
As Isaiah Berlin put it, ‘disregard for the preferences and interests of individuals alive today in order to pursue some distant social goal that their rulers have claimed is their duty to promote has...
Homini lupus’, said Plautus. ‘Man is a wolf to man.
If life needs no intelligent designer, then why should the market need a central planner?
In a sorry world there is no safety to be found in standing still.
Simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.
Story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.
The Pentagon actually donates military equipment to the police, including tanks.
The first century of the US Federal Reserve’s existence has been a failure. Not only has there been incontinent inflation since 1913, the year the Fed came into existence (8 per cent in the preceding...
There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.
Time always erodes advantage.
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