Statist Baggage on the Airlines
First it was the TSA; now it’s the airlines. In addition to getting their bodies squeezed by the TSA, airline …
Economics
Posts on economics
Posts on economics
Everyone Should Use LSD
The character Flik in the movie A Bug’s Life was always on the lookout for an invention that would improve the …
Ron Paul’s Plan to Restore America
Monday afternoon marked the release of Ron Paul’s “Restore America Now” economic plan and federal budget, and it is impressive. …
The Progress of Greed
Capitalism has an ironic side effect after generations of progress: we forget about the minutia of production and the importance …
The Lottery is the Best Tax
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government …
What’s Wrong with Social Justice?
What does “social justice” mean? To the extent that it is about justice – outputs being aligned with inputs; effect …
Freedoms I Wish the Military Were Defending
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” ~ George W. Bush, September …
Equality, Envy and Idolatry
My latest post over at the Common Sense Concept: The poor in the US are doing very well compared to …
Private Charity Isn’t Enough
“The idea that churches can tackle national poverty, take care of those who are ill, and rebuild communities after natural …
What “rights” do Christians have?
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government …
Politicians are self-interested too (and probably more than you are)
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government …
Economic Theory, Self-Interest, and the Bible
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government …
Moral Busybodies
This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d …
Two Concepts of Equality
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The great …
Which kind of Equality?
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The eighteenth …
Should We Let Things Get So Bad They Finally Get Better?
A snippet I wrote for the March 2010 issue of Liberty Magazine in the Reflections section under the title “Story …
The Philosophy of Ludwig von Mises
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article is …
The Market Economy and Its Life-Support System
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The World …
Noah’s Ark and the Sanctity of Private Property
The subject of a proposed religious theme park in Kentucky brings up an issue near and dear to the heart …
The War on Poverty Revisited
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the February 1986 edition of The Freeman. —- Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the …
To Save the World
By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the April 1984 edition of The Freeman. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, …
Ed Opitz shows us the Way of Freedom
A quote from Edmund Opitz. —- “The human spirit seeks full and free expression in every department of life: in …
Classic Essay: Against School
By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught …
Teensploitation
Far from being environments conducive to learning, schools across the world coerce students to conform to the whims of politicians and bureaucrats. Billed as bastions of free expression, intellectual honesty and rigor, administrators have turned schools into prisons for the mind, where one-size- fits-all policies are forced upon youth and where independent thoughts are discarded. It’s a world in which the government will tell a student what they can and can’t think, wear, say, or do. It’s a world that crushes the individual for the benefit of those in power — a practice we’ve dubbed “Teensploitation.”
Progressives Against Progress
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another.