The notorious “Auction of the Empire” reveals what eventually happens when a civilization succumbs to concentrated power and corruption.

It has been said that income taxes are the price we pay for civilization. To that, as I try to make sense of the tax code, I must ask, “This is civilization?”

The idiot who said capitalism can’t handle COVID got it precisely wrong. In this commentary at EL AMERICAN, I recount my recent COVID-related experience at the Paris airport.

Do not be gullible or foolish enough to suggest that the supremely evil Adolf Hitler was either a capitalist or a Christian.

To the LSE Class War people, Hayek’s championship of the free economy over a socialist one is a sin that can be neither forgiven nor tolerated. Theirs is an indefensible perspective that speaks volumes about their intellectual insecurity.

For one who fancies himself “progressive,” Biden seems astonishingly unaware that his “soak ‘em good” mentality is medieval, if not ancient.

Thanks, Ben & Jerry’s, for providing me with the opportunity to say some good things about Israel’s vibrant economy.

The crisis in the government schools these days is NOT in the part that’s delivered privately, but rather, in the part that is exclusively government.

Historically, the connection between gold and liberty is a potent one. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to assert—if you will pardon the pun—that they are two sides of the same coin.

If you don’t like hikes, then if you walk Caminito del Rey, you may lose your tapas.

Anyone who simply observes the increased construction activity as people spend to rebuild and concludes that a disaster is some sort of economic blessing, is blind to the big picture.

The greatest drag on the DPC model is the threat of government red tape and regulations at the federal and state levels, as well as pressure from those with a vested interest in the high-cost, less-than-transparent status quo.

Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse.

Today’s advocates of the spendthrift nanny state dismiss this practitioner of small government as a simple man of even simpler times. His wisdom, however, demonstrates the crucial difference between simple and simplistic.

A hideous monument to the essence of socialism, which is FORCE.

The experiences of those who came before, especially when understood in the context of their times, are fraught with lessons we ignore at our peril.

What on earth do we have to show for all this stupidity? Nothing but pain and sorrow and diminishing public treasuries, not to mention the liberties we have lost because of property forfeiture and other intrusive police powers.

If Nicaraguans had good reasons to oust Somoza in 1979—and in belief, they did—then they have even more and better reasons to oust the criminal who oppresses them today.

An event two centuries before Magna Carta can stake a strong claim as the real genesis of English liberty.

They wanted a triumph of exhortation over incentive, of intentions over results, of wishful thinking over actual performance.