The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the...
A society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means.
Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market
The true theory of our constitution is surely the wisest & best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, & united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the gener...
Communism brought out the worst in human nature, and crippled people’s ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can poss...
What remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?
No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.
Emin’s My Bed, which was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, consisted of an unmade bed complete with bottles of vodka, used prophylactics, and bloodied undergarments. While on display at the...
We’re being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.
Unchecked power is an invitation to tyranny.
Of all the misapplications of the word conservative in recent memory, Nisbet wrote in the 1980s, the most amusing, in an historical light, is surely the application of ‘conservative’ to…great increase...
No oppressive government can survive if it has to use force to get people to obey its commands. What government must do is get the people to buy in, to voluntarily support their own oppressors, or the...
In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement,
Caplan writes: My study of personality psychology makes me one of the doubters. On the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, there is a huge Thinking-Feeling gap between men and women. For men, the...
Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.
About fifteen years ago a conservative columnist wrote that Americans are faced with a choice between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. And that once in a while the two parties get together and do...
We should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.
Society degenerates into a condition of low-intensity civil war, with each pressure group anxious to secure legislation aimed at enriching itself at the expense of the rest of society.
Imperialism has always been something of a losing proposition, especially in the modern international system, and our ruling class’s attempt to nation-build the world in their own image is doomed to f...