What happens now runs a huge risk of turning a great moment for freedom into an indefensible quagmire.

Zohran Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism” remark may prove to be the most idiotic of the year, but socialists say dumb stuff like that all the time.

Does this story tug at your heartstrings? If it does, then you appreciate something the world desperately needs, something that is crucial to a free and moral society—honesty for the sake of it. Photo: Dr. Haing S. Ngor.

From income inequality to jobs to politics to personal independence, Simon Studer shows how value—subjective, personal value, the only kind there is—makes the world go round. Most readers of this book will never see the world the same way again. And that, you will learn, is a very good thing. A wonderful contribution in the Austrian School tradition.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “I cannot live without books.” Indeed, he owned about 6,000 of them, which he sold to Congress in 1815.

A testament to a friendship that hopefully will endure forever.

The pigeons in the picture got it right. Marx was a detestable fraud and he should have listened to his mother.

Matters of belief and conscience should belong exclusively to the individual and his Maker, not legislators and potentates.

He was arrested and interrogated by the highest-ranking officer in the British Army, General William Howe, who got utterly nothing out of him but name, rank and an honest account of his purpose. For their patriotism, his last words remain unsurpassed. Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/un-heroe-que-los-estadounidenses-jamas-deben-olvidar-nathan-hale/.

Hayek firmly rejected the modern leftist obsession with “social justice.” Redistribution schemes based on outcome-focused equality ignore the process by which outcomes arise. Inequality, per se, is not a problem. The focus should not be on the outcome, but on the process. Photo: Hayek (left) and Mises (right).

I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.

The idea that politicians are supposed to provide solutions to problems is usually stupid, because politicians are not magicians. They can't do things any better than people who actually create wealth. They don't create wealth, they just redistribute it. We shouldn't think of the state as a very generous uncle who only thinks about us. A very good English translation of an interview with Kristina Votrubova in the publication Postroj. Conducted November 27, 2025.

Don’t ignore the long-run. Government is not Superman. The balance of trade is nonsense. Jesus was no socialist. And more! This is a video recording of my speech for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik in Bratislava, Slovakia, on November 27, 2025.

We should be in awe of the endless miracles that come our way from the marketplace of invention, innovation, and exchange. A podcast interview from the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org, October 2025.

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

The late Milton Friedman figures into this October 2025 video interview of me by Libertarianism.org. Topic: From “I, Pencil” to “I, Smartphone.”

Opposition arises every time new technology emerges. Often it is promoted by those whose livelihoods would be most directly affected. Their short-term, vested interest focus might grant them temporary security, but it does so at the expense of the well-being of everyone else.

You will be amazed at what goes into a handheld device that nearly everybody uses. Inspired by Leonard Read's famous piece, "I, Pencil," it will be a success if it becomes just a fraction of the classic Leonard's essay was.