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Workers’ Rights and Gender as a Divide-and-Conquer Tool

April 22, 2025 | Post

Are “workers’ rights” actually hurting workers? As tariffs and labor regulations grow in the U.S., small businesses are struggling with

WE BUILT A TIME MACHINE. This was the result.

April 8, 2025 | Video

What if you could actually travel into the past? What would it feel like, compared to the present? As much as the past gets romanticized, the truth is: It was dirtier, more dangerous, and less comfortable. Experience that reality for yourself in our Video Time Machine, from which you’ll relive the Year 2000, then 1950, […]

The 4 Disagreements Between Objectivism and Libertarianism

March 24, 2025 | Post

Ayn Rand vs. Libertarians: A Love-Hate Relationship? 🔥

What I Learned: LibertyCon International, 2025

February 19, 2025 | Post

As a way to empty out my notebook after SFL events, these What I Learned columns have become a favorite tradition of mine. And since this is LEARN Liberty, after all … let’s go. I learned what a Venezuelan 100-Bolivar bill looks and feels like. It was given out as a tangible reminder of the […]

Roundtable: Should National Banks Hold Bitcoin as Reserves?

February 11, 2025 | Post

CNB Governor Aleš Michl recently suggested that Bitcoin could become part of the bank’s reserves. Will this boost BTC’s legitimacy or contradict its core principles? Five Students For Liberty volunteers from Czechia share their perspectives, from enthusiastic support to strong opposition.

Antony Davies DEBUNKS 7 Robert Reich LIES

January 26, 2025 | Video

Robert Reich’s recent “debunking” series needed a debunking itself. Because, as John Stossel said, Reich is wrong about pretty much everything. Watch this video to see Learn Liberty’s own Antony Davies take down 7 of Reich’s most egregious errors. AND don’t forget: You can see Antony talk in person! Register for LibertyCon International right here: […]

Capitalism and Scarcity in Star Trek

November 12, 2024 | Post

In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Captain Freeman’s mission to “dismantle capitalism” on Targalus IX raises big questions, like: Can technology eliminate scarcity, or does demand for unique resources keep markets alive?

How PRICE CONTROLS Leads to Big Government

November 8, 2024 | Video

The road to communism is paved with good intentions, and price controls illustrate it perfectly. See how and why in this video, where you’ll learn the 7 fallout effects of one particular kind of price control: rent control. CHAPTERS 0:00 Paved with Good Intentions 0:53 Defining Price and Control 2:26: 7 Effects of Price Controls […]

Exposing The TRUTH Behind Price Gouging

November 8, 2024 | Video

Price gouging encourages competition by pressuring manufacturers and distributors to increase production, which over time, would actually drive down costs. Price controls during a time of crisis, however, do nothing to address the shortage problem.

How Government Spending Fuels Inflation

November 1, 2024 | Post

Inflation hurts our spending capacity, diminishes our quality of life, dashes our hopes of upward mobility, and damages our trust in the cornerstone institutions of banks, dollars, and government. Yet inflation is all around us. After purchasing my usual burrito bowl at Chipotle recently, I had to review my receipt to ensure I had been […]

Would Trump Really Demolish the Deep State?

October 18, 2024 | Post

Donald Trump famously promised to “drain the swamp” upon his election in 2016. And if you’ve ever been to Washington, D.C. in the summer, you know that’s not just a metaphor for the convoluted, bureaucratic political system: D.C. is a literal, humid, marshy swamp! Geography aside, now that the possibility of another Trump administration is […]

Monumental Innovation

October 11, 2024 | Post

River Plate’s Climb to Football’s Summit Republished with the permission of the author and the We Are Innovation network In the world football arena, River Plate has reached a new peak. According to Transfermarkt, the internationally renowned statistics portal, El Monumental stadium now dominates the pantheon of stadium attendance records worldwide. With an impressive average […]

5 Takeaways from Mises’s Masterpiece: Human Action

September 29, 2024 | Post

Happy birthday, Ludwig! As a Happy Birthday tribute to Ludwig von Mises (born Sept. 29, 1881), here’s what you need to know about his life … and what you need to know from his iconic treatise on economics, Human Action. The underappreciated economist Ludwig von Mises is today celebrated as one of the founding fathers […]

Everything Wrong with the FED

August 28, 2024 | Video

The Fed was created by the world’s richest people to increase their power. Here are 6 things that have gone horribly wrong since the Fed came into existence — according to Austrian economics.

Donald Trump, Elon Musk and What It Says about Government

August 22, 2024 | Post

Donald Trump proclaimed that he would consider naming Elon Musk to an advisory or cabinet role if he

Bitcoin Produces Prosperity, Not Climate Change

August 15, 2024 | Post

Despite claims of environmental harm, Bitcoin’s impact is minimal compared to its global benefits!

Public Works

August 9, 2024 | Post

In his 1850 essay, Frédéric Bastiat discusses the notion of “Public Works.” He explains that public works like opening roads, building palaces, and repairing streets create jobs and boost the economy in the short term, but they take away unseen opportunities in the long run.

The Broken Window

August 8, 2024 | Post

The “Broken Window” parable by Frédéric Bastiat, from his 1850 essay “That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen,” reveals the fallacy of believing destruction boosts the economy.