New York City Is About To Elect a Socialist Mayor in Zohran Mamdani. Why Won't This Failed Ideology Die?
The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.
The troubling rise of Zohran Mamdani is about more than policy. It's about culture.
Political economist Mark Pennington draws on the ideas of Hayek and Foucault to show how expert rule and government surveillance are making it harder for people to think freely and live on their own terms.
When even most upper-income Republicans say they're working class, the term has become meaningless.
His famous erudition was attached to his nightmare politics.
British economist Geoffrey M. Hodgson argues private property and individual enterprise fueled the Great Enrichment.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
But Patrick Deneen’s “common-good conservatism” almost certainly would be.
In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.
Election winner Pedro Castillo plans to end the country’s successful free market reforms.
It wasn't until his thirties that the economist started to turn from Marxism.
A third-generation Marxist critiques the contemporary left and discusses what progressives and libertarians might have in common.
Costly mistakes have allowed socialism to rise again in the 21st century.
"The Definitive Capitalism vs. Socialism Rap Battle" is live!
The controversial cultural critic rightly praises capitalism for its subversion of the status quo and its ability to make us fat.
There's a risk that if Warren and Sanders do get their way, the sucking sound will be of talent and capital fleeing America for other jurisdictions where they will be treated better.
New research shows that business leaders who benefit from government favoritism are more comfortable with government intervention into markets.
The AFL-CIO's Twitter account appears to endorse a workers' revolution.
Which economic system is most effective at bringing freedom to the masses?
Democratic socialists say they believe in civil liberties, but their ideology is and will always be hostile to individual freedom.
Peterson: "SJWs" evolved from Marxism.
Damon Root on how the famous abolitionist was also an outspoken classical liberal.
Renegade University's Thaddeus Russell on the federal-accreditation racket, why the Ivys are terrified of competition, and how postmodernism is libertarianism's ally.
Imperialism is not the highest stage of capitalism, as Karl Marx claimed.
Coming to terms with one's own delusions is a difficult task.
Spiked's Brendan O'Neill on free expression, environmentalism as "an apology for poverty" and why he is "a Marxist libertarian."
Not a fan of the Pope's "Evangelii Gaudium"
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