From each according to his freely undertaken contribution to the creation of wealth. To each according to the same.
Libertarianism
Rose Wilder Lane, Frontier Prophet of Freedom
On December 5, 1886, on a windswept homestead near De Smet in Dakota Territory, Rose Wilder Lane entered a world of adversity. She was the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Within a few short years her family’s cabin burned, her parents were...
Henry Hazlitt, ‘Economic Conscience of a Nation’
Henry Hazlitt’s life story reads like a microcosm of the American century. Born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1894, he lost his father in infancy and left the City College of New York to support his widowed mother. In the fluid labor market of the time he bounced...
TGIF: The Capitalist-Socialist Asymmetry
Free-marketeers have long pointed out a particular asymmetry between capitalism and socialism (whether of the international or national variety). While anyone in a capitalist society would have a right to engage in socialism (as anyone can do now in our hampered...
Robert Nozick, From Socialist Youth to Libertarian Visionary
Born on November 16, 1938 in Brooklyn, Robert Nozick began his intellectual life as a young socialist but ended it as one of the twentieth century’s fiercest defenders of property rights and limited government. Raised in a Jewish immigrant household, he joined Norman...
TGIF: Envy, Ignorance, Barbarism Triumph in New York
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory in New York City is a triumph of moral barbarism, economic illiteracy, illogic, and just plain envy. Mamdani's campaign had a double pitch: billionaires should not exist, and "the people" deserve free stuff. At...
Ron Paul and the Consistent Life Ethic
For decades, Ron Paul has been the most high-profile supporter of the consistent life ethic in American political life. Consistent life ethicists subscribe to the “premise or theory that all human life is inherently valuable, and therefore, that all humans deserve to...
The Economics of Vaccines and Ethics of Mandates
The epistemological basis for the set of fundamental rules and principles for peace and justice is the ownership of one’s own body, because if people do not have the legitimate right to decide about it, what legal or moral reason would anyone else have to respect...
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