Millennials are in a love triangle with capitalism and socialism
Millennials may talk the socialist talk, but this look at the evidence shows they also walk a rather capitalist walk.
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Does the market make us good? Does socialism?
Only in freedom do people have the ability to be good, but can freedom itself teach us what “goodness” means?
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Will President Trump kill capitalism?
Capitalism—stronger than any border wall or immigration ban—remains a resilient and deeply American system.
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How Castro Is Like The Minimum Wage
In my mind, then, Castro is a lot like the minimum wage: something we must stubbornly decry even though there are far greater ills in the world.
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How defending capitalism is like recycling
Recycling is one example of an action that we take in the present to benefit a group in the future.
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How schools and the media cover up communist crimes
An astonishingly high percentage of millennials do not know who communist leaders like Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin were.
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The Dystopian Novel that Foresaw the Nightmares of Socialism
Decades before the socialists gained power, Eugene Richter saw the writing on the wall.
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Friday Links
Saturday, September 17th will be the five year anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests. This week’s links cover the protests and what they did (or didn’t) accomplish. The Lasting Effects of Occupy Wall Street, Five Years Later Throwback: What Reason Saw at Occupy Wall Street Protests What Occupy Wall Street Got […]
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Lessons from Venezuela, as Told by a Venezuelan
Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted by Freedom Partners on July 31st, 2016. Minor edits were made to improve clarity. What does socialism look like in the real world? Cronyism. Inequality. Poverty. Despair. Human suffering on an immense scale. That’s the answer that Freedom Partners member — and Venezuela native — Erick Brimen gives in the video below. […]
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Star Trek Is Far from Libertarian — Here’s Why
At least from a libertarian perspective, the otherwise appealing ideological vision of Star Trek is compromised by its commitment to socialism.
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Venezuela vs. Ecuador (Chavismo vs. Chavismo Dollarized)
This piece was originally published at the Cato Institute. Tune into Learn Liberty’s Facebook page on Monday at 3pm for a Facebook Live event with professor Steve Hanke on this topic. With the arrival of President Hugo Chávez in 1999, Venezuela embraced Chavismo, a form of Andean socialism. In 2013, Chávez met the Grim Reaper […]
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The Consequences of Ignoring Economics in Public Policy
Why does economic education matter? Look no further than the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, where the Washington Post is reporting that food shortages are so bad that people are attacking food trucks when they make deliveries. It all started when Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, tried to formulate public policy while ignoring economics. […]
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