Why have socialist economies repeatedly struggled with shortages, corruption, black markets, and authoritarianism?

Alexis de Tocqueville never wrote about Japan, but his warnings about democracy, centralization, and soft despotism found an ...

At sixteen, Helmuth Hübener discovered how much information Nazi propaganda concealed from the German people. With a few ...

Sarah Thomas evaluates Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in light of the American Founding’s 250th anniversary, emphasizing ...

In this essay, Bill Glod argues against the prosecution of “victimless crimes” like alcohol and drug consumption, gambling, ...

The Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote the “Black National Anthem” was a renaissance man indeed. James Weldon Johnson was a professor, anti- lynching activist, foreign diplomat, and a leader of the ...

Anarchism is a theory of society without the state in which the market provides all public goods and services, such as law and order. Although most anarchists oppose all large institutions, public or ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

Nick Wilson has two decades of experience with the US government, both as a military officer and in the civil service. After leaving public service, Nick entered the private sector as a financial ...