2016–2026
1,385 posts
2026 23
October 2026
September 2026
- Economic Analysis: Did Capitalism Reduce Global Poverty?
- Consenting to the Panopticon: What Modern Technology Has Done to Us … Without Our Realizing It
- Socialism Is the Least Humane Economic Policy.
August 2026
- Walter Defends Sarajevo: A Story of Propaganda in Cinema
- In Defense of Billionaires: Value, Virtue, and the Zero-Sum Fallacy
- Chasing the American Dream – or Destroying It?
July 2026
- Capitalism Needs Failure. Not Necessarily Yours.
- From India to Rome to America: Liberty’s story around the world
- CBDCs, Keynes, and the Beginning of the End
- Chat Control Comes in Two Versions. Neither Respects Your Privacy
- From Philadelphia to Delhi: How 1776 Contributed to the World’s Largest Liberal Democracy
- Happy Birthday, America: A Libertarian Reading of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
June 2026
- Don’t Ban Prediction Markets
- Book Review: Sexual States: Governance & the Struggle over Antisodomy Law
- Why Your Money Keeps Losing Value (And What We Can Do About It)
May 2026
April 2026
- Parallel Governments: How Cartels Replaced the State in Latin America
- What “Project Hail Mary” Offers about Modern Discourse
- What does “No Kings” really mean?
March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
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December 2025
- Digital Liberty, Real Risk
- Why Liberty, and Why Liberty Matters: A Book Review
- Gen Z is out of patience and out of cash… and the latest Trump proposals won’t cure that
November 2025
- Why can’t you tell federal agents to just go away?
- New York Mayor Race: Lessons in freedom from other cities
- Ethereum vs. Bitcoin: Which one better empowers economic freedom?
October 2025
- Capitalism is not consumerism
- Trade Deficit: The Most Misunderstood Number In Economics
- When Richard Dawkins Became an Economist — Without Realizing It
September 2025
- How Governments Increase Corporate Greed
- The Furry Freaks That Broke(?) Capitalism
- Time Is Running Out: Why the EU’s “Chat Control” Threatens Privacy, Security, and Freedom
- What Is Fascism?
August 2025
- When a Beer Brand Changed Its Gender and a Restaurant Chain Killed a Cracker
- Peace Activism to the Limit: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
- Leviathan vs. Liberty in a Post-COVID World
- The Invisible Hand and India’s Article 39(b)
July 2025
- Utopyc: An Emotional Journey Toward True Freedom
- Liberty on the Ledger: How Blockchain Advances Freedom
- How I Changed My Mind About the War in Ukraine
- What drives change: preaching or living?
June 2025
May 2025
- How EU-UK Agreements Advance Free Trade and Mobility
- 4 Facts about the Greediest Corporation in America
- 5 tips to be sovereign in an unfree world
- Q&A: Can Nuclear Weapons Ever Be Abolished?
April 2025
- 1984, Anthem, and Reality
- Workers’ Rights and Gender as a Divide-and-Conquer Tool
- Building a Freer Future: What to Expect at LibertyCon Europe 2025
- Libertarianism Might Never Be for the Masses
March 2025
February 2025
- Communism Disguised as ‘Democracy’
- A full buffet for only $6.35? Only in Thailand
- What I Learned: LibertyCon International, 2025
- Roundtable: Should National Banks Hold Bitcoin as Reserves?
- The Fountainhead of the Psychedelic Renaissance
January 2025
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December 2024
November 2024
- The Burmese Spring Revolution and the Fight for Liberty
- Capitalism and Scarcity in Star Trek
- Quick Take on the 2024 Presidential Election
- Should libertarians vote?
- How Government Spending Fuels Inflation
October 2024
- Cigarettes, Free Speech, and the Supreme Court
- The Struggle for Freedom in Modern Africa
- Would Trump Really Demolish the Deep State?
- Monumental Innovation
- Why Does America Have Two Parties?
September 2024
- 5 Takeaways from Mises’s Masterpiece: Human Action
- Should You Be Able to Pay for Sex?
- Trail of Tears
- Trend Is Not Destiny
- The Literature of Liberty
August 2024
- Gadsden Flag: A Provocative Symbol In Context
- The Prometheus Journey: A Love Letter
- Donald Trump, Elon Musk and What It Says about Government
- Presidents and Their Wars on the Press
- Bitcoin Produces Prosperity, Not Climate Change
- Ukraine’s Offensive Might Play into Putin’s Hands
- Public Works
- The Broken Window
- What Can One Do?
- What I Learned in Nairobi
July 2024
- The Ambulance Ride of His Life
- Getting The Whole Story – Whole Foods Co-founder John Mackey Tells It All
June 2024
- Breaking down the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court Ruling
- Why We Need a Flat Tax
- Juneteenth: 3 Lessons in Activism
- High Time to Rethink High Schooling
May 2024
- Does the Freedom of Your Nation Set You Free?
- The Economic Impact of the Ukraine War
- Foreign Agents Bill in Georgia: What to Know and Why It Matters
- An American at LibertyCon Europe: What I Learned
- Searching for the Heart of LibertyCon Europe: A Recap
- Crisis in Brazil: How You Can Help Flood-Stricken Rio Grande do Sul
April 2024
- Sprouting Vegetables of Liberty
- Who’s Running for President in 2024?
- My Experience with Campus Climate at a Liberal Arts College
March 2024
- Stop complaining, start building: why Ayn Rand is so popular among entrepreneurs and high achievers
- How and why the war on drugs has failed
- Five people influenced by Ayn Rand
- Anthem: a gateway to the genius of Ayn Rand
- The key to finding truth in a world of misinformation
February 2024
- Debunking Putin’s Alternative “History”
- Liberalism as a product: how to convince others that freedom is good
- Deirdre McCloskey: ‘The pursuit of freedom has unleashed unprecedented innovation, prosperity, and social transformation’
- David Boaz: ‘Fight illiberalism and authoritarianism wherever you find it’
- Remembering Alexei Navalny: a champion of freedom in Russia
- Why our liberty hinges on the Rule of Law
- Why Portugal’s Socialist Party looks poised for victory despite scandal
- Mohammed Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi: the tragedy of executed dissidents in Iran
- The Soviet Union’s terrible legacy on democracy and minority rights
January 2024
- Tolerance means dealing with ideas without canceling or censoring
- Love your enemies: why human respect is the key to victory
- AI isn’t going to leave you unemployed
- Why is college so expensive?
- How government subsidies encourage bad diets
- Join us at LibertyCon Europe in Tbilisi, Georgia!
- How the Grace Richardson Fund is putting free-market environmentalism into action
- There is only one colonizer in Ukraine, and it isn’t the West
- The rise of political violence: is it only going to get worse?
- How Section 230 protects your online freedom
- A new Vancouver development shows what’s possible when housing is deregulated
- The awkward and uncomfortable problem with national conservatism
- Would a “national divorce” lead to more individual liberty?
- How (true) liberalism made us rich
- What makes Bitcoin such a revolutionary concept?
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December 2023
- The death penalty has no place in a civilized society
- Unmasking the true force behind the housing crisis
- Despite regulatory barriers, 3D-printed houses can revolutionize the construction industry
- How occupational licensing oppresses the poor
- To address poverty, we must forget about inequality
- Tuvalu could become the world’s first digital country as it sinks into the ocean
- It’s time for qualified immunity to go
- Four civil asset forfeiture horror stories: how many more will it take to end it?
- The elite v. the people: Nigeria’s “cashless experiment”
- Meet the fearless middle schooler who dared to wear the Gadsden flag in class
- This Christmas, blame supply and demand for your expensive gifts
- Dr. Tom G. Palmer on responsibility and freedom
- If you care about liberty, beware of CBDCs
- The Iranian dictatorship does not deserve to chair the Human Rights Council
- Why we should celebrate capitalism and consumerism, at Christmas and all year
- How minimum wage laws harm and exclude
November 2023
- Here’s the reason mainstream environmentalist groups hate nuclear energy: they’re paid to
- What the world can learn from Argentina’s liberty movement
- Why trade wars are wars on the poor
- Ohio voted to legalize marijuana: here’s what you need to know
- How tax reduction helps combat corruption: lessons from Georgia
- Justin Amash: exposing America’s broken political system
- Why we need to deemphasize schooling in America
October 2023
- This Halloween, let’s look back at 6 scary incidents created by the COVID lockdowns
- Three pro-liberty perspectives on war
- Remembering Ibrahim Qashoush: a brutal story of musical resistance and regime violence
- What explains the rise of antisemitism in American colleges?
- Grocery aisle garbage vs. free-market wellness: how food subsidies contribute to poor health
- Socialism is immoral. This Soviet refugee tells us why
- In defense of globalization
- A martyr for free speech: Helmuth Hübener
- Javier Milei: a new era for Argentina?
- Think school choice mainly benefits rich families? Think again
- Why freedom matters more than safety
- The case for Liberland
- What would Adam Smith write about now?
- Branded as traitors: why activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not for the fainthearted
September 2023
- Ludwig von Mises: an economist for freedom and free enterprise
- Bill C-11: how Canada’s algorithm power play stifles free speech online
- 7 controversial life lessons that shouldn’t be controversial
- Why is communism still a thing in Portugal?
- Defending liberty in the digital age: how useful is social media activism?
- Spike Cohen: What’s next for the liberty movement?
- Libya: a cautionary tale against interventionism
- Five books to understand Objectivism
- Globalization: a curse or a blessing?
- What Elizabeth Bennet taught me about liberty
- The philosophical journey of liberty: from Antiquity to the Age of Revolution
- How Students For Liberty will free the world — with a hand from F.A. Hayek
August 2023
- What Jordan Peterson’s failed court appeal says about freedom of expression in Canada
- Climate anxiety and sunk costs: flipping the script on ostrich solutions
- Five myths about antitrust
- Why defending LGBTQ+ liberty remains an imperative
- How immigration creates a more prosperous world
- Why (and how) the war on drugs has failed
- Harmful natural monopoly: the myth that keeps on giving
- Should libertarians support labor unions? Here are 8 resounding reasons to say yes
- Uniting for Ukraine: How Ukrainian refugees are filling America’s labor void
- AI, automation, and the future of work: Navigating, automating, and … terminating?
- Five books to understand Austrian economics
- Bill C-18: social media no longer a home for news in Canada
- The origins of libertarianism
July 2023
- Happy Birthday Milton Friedman
- A history of money and the gold standard
- Why are people in Sudan running for their lives again?
- The importance of free markets in building a sustainable future
- Five reasons why you need to be at LibertyCon International
- Mises on immigration: setting the record straight
- Five books to understand classical liberalism
- The two ideas that made America
June 2023
- How classical liberalism played a crucial role in advancing LGBTQ+ rights
- The reality of the War on Drugs: one Alaskan town’s experience
- A classical liberal perspective on the significance of Juneteenth
- Why is Africa poor? Is colonization the root cause?
- Debunking 3 myths about the French Revolution
- It’s time to get rid of the tampon tax
- How Alan Turing’s tragic tale epitomizes LGBTQ+ persecution by governments
- A history of free speech in America
- Don’t be fooled, life in the Soviet Union was awful
- China’s authoritarian export: the technocratic menace and global ideological battle
- An assault on anonymity: the consequences of Vietnam’s new social media policy
- How gun control might be seen 100 years from now
May 2023
- Inefficiency and unintended consequences: why environmental regulations typically fall short
- Remembering Karl Hess on his 100th birthday
- Unleashing the power of rhetoric: how Deirdre McCloskey transformed the landscape of economics
- Up in smoke: why new restrictions on vaping products are not about public health
- Fixing education will take more than school choice
- The state of free speech among high school students
- 4 things you probably never knew about John Stuart Mill
- Getting good results vs doing the right thing
- Freaking out over tiny risks: A case study from a moral panic
- The Declaration of Independence says we have the right to overthrow the government
- F.A. Hayek accomplished several careers’ worth of economic achievements in one lifetime
April 2023
- What is free-market environmentalism?
- A realistic look at Iran’s nuclear program
- The right drug policy: legalize and educate
- How sustainable farming is paying off for Australian farmers
- Why disasters should remind us of Bastiat’s wisdom
- The tragedy of the commons explained
- 280 years later, here’s how Thomas Jefferson is still shaping our society
- Silencing dissent: the dangerous precedent set by Tennessee’s partisan expulsions
- Expert answers on the Drug War: highlights from Prof. Jeff Miron’s AMA
- Political Islam and the violation of individual rights
- Is Covid China’s Chernobyl?
- Why innovation is the solution to the carbon crisis
March 2023
- The TikTok dilemma: privacy risks vs the importance of free choice
- A legacy of liberty: the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820
- The do’s and don’ts of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania
- The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the changing role of government
- A tale of three Austrian entrepreneurship views
- Joseph Schumpeter: the most important economist you might not know of
- Minimum wage laws deny low-skilled workers their autonomy
- Out with the coal, in with the nuclear
- Should India repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the North East?
- Born from dissent: social movements and the case of Georgia
- Georgia’s foreign agent law casts an ominous shadow on its European aspirations
- Women’s History Month: Meet 12 women who’ve contributed to a freer future
- 5 speakers you don’t want to miss at LibertyCon Europe 2023
- Why some countries succeed and others don’t
- Why can’t you pay for sex?
- Murray Rothbard’s unwavering commitment to peace
February 2023
- Who was Ayn Rand?
- The Misuse of Social Media Act: a threat to freedom of expression in Uganda
- A foot in the door? Australia’s real housing crisis, exposed
- 5 reasons to visit Lisbon in April 2023
- What are the limits of ideology?
- What is the future of psychedelics?
- 7 Ayn Rand quotes for living a fulfilling life
- Has interventionism jeopardized America’s future?
- Top 5 myths about Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
- What is capitalism?
- Why Section 230 is vital for freedom of expression online
- Why China’s aggressive expansionism in Arunachal Pradesh is completely unjustified
- Happy Birthday Ayn Rand
- Now is the time to end American involvement in Yemen
January 2023
- Hong Kong: a model city-state under siege
- Why does liberty work?
- The KGB still runs Russia and always has
- 2022 is over and Soylent Green isn’t people
- NIMBYs vs. affordable housing
- Which states accept out-of-state medical marijuana cards in 2023?
- Review: ‘How the Force Can Fix the World,’ by Stephen Kent
- Join us in Lisbon, Portugal for LibertyCon Europe 2023!
- Is social media a modern-day Tower of Babel?
- National Security Law: the crackdown on democracy and freedom in Hong Kong
- Are major tech companies stifling free speech?
- Don’t believe the hype, Bitcoin is not anti-environment
- What’s wrong with making money?
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December 2022
- Ten movies every libertarian should watch
- 13 books every well-rounded libertarian should read
- How gay pride is a celebration of liberty
- How financial surveillance and inflation are used to rob Americans
- Is AI our generation’s nuclear fission?
- Rob Your Neighbor: the philosophy of publicly funded projects
- Is Elon Musk really a friend of free speech?
- Can the clever federal fox be outsmarted?
- The libertarian position on gay marriage: a matter of expression?
- The dangerous simplicity of polarization
- How to prepare yourself for hyperinflation: tips from the Venezuelan experience
- What’s happening in China: is the communist regime in trouble?
November 2022
- The top five reasons why socialism doesn’t work
- Why economics is not just graphs and charts
- The dark side of the Qatar World Cup
- Why cosmopolitanism is essential to liberty
- Socialism: the failed idea that never dies
- Here’s why population growth is an opportunity, not a threat
- Elon Musk’s ego will always trump free speech
- Libertarian solutions to inflation
- Stop stealing our future: why inflation matters for everyone
- How the sharing economy protects the environment
- Lessons from Covid about healthcare and sin taxes
October 2022
- A world unsafe for autocracy
- 5 ways market competition can reduce global poverty
- Five myths about Ayn Rand and Objectivism
- A time of reckoning: what’s happening in Iran?
- Biden’s pardon of those convicted of marijuana possession is a huge step
- For a freer future, we must move beyond the culture war
- Why Congress is broken
- A perfect storm for maritime policy: the Jones Act five years after Hurricane Maria
- Western cultural myths about China prevent us from seeing reality
September 2022
- Libertarianism: perfect solution or unrealistic fantasy?
- What does it mean to be left or right-wing?
- Five myths about the Great Depression
- Why do you need a gun?
- Truth exists – and disagreement helps us reach it
- Why millennials should want lower taxes
- Why democracy is good for liberty
- You can be pro-freedom and a royalist
- Libertarian alternatives to war with Russia
- Why a free society requires open borders
- Women in politics: why the female perspective is important
August 2022
- Student loan debt forgiveness is not the sunshine and rainbows we think
- Promoting false narratives doesn’t promote liberty
- Why pro-liberty solutions must apply to the real world
- What do libertarians and progressives have in common?
- How the profit motive can protect the environment
- Would the American Innovation and Choice Online Act enhance economic freedom?
- Why libertarians should support Ukraine but oppose American military intervention
- Speak up! Overcoming the anxiety of free speech on campus
- Neoliberalism and libertarianism
July 2022
- The Gadsden flag: a historic symbol rooted in classical liberalism
- What to expect at LibertyCon International 2022
- National divorce is not a pro-liberty solution
- A new beginning for the Learn Liberty blog
- Checking in on China: why hard times lie ahead
- Pro-liberty discourse needs to be practical and relatable
- The libertarian personality: a quick guide to the best friends you’ve yet to meet
- Why the gas tax holiday should be made permanent
- Why was this year’s 4th of July cookout so expensive?
- The libertarian position on abortion
June 2022
- Market-based solutions to climate change
- People say Putin is pragmatic; here is why they are wrong
- LGBTQ+ rights in Ireland: a redemption arc
- Boris Johnson and Partygate: when politicians think they’re above the law
- We cannot let freedom of speech become a casualty of war
May 2022
- How the government is fueling the obesity epidemic
- Can limited forms of welfare enhance freedom in the short term?
- New battlegrounds: liberty in a time of realignment
- The U.S. Constitution and the right to privacy
- 1984 is as relevant as ever in 2022
- Free speech, fake news, and society’s search for truth
- Sri Lankans unite in the face of government-induced adversity
- A public school teacher’s plea for libertarian solutions
April 2022
- What Elon Musk buying Twitter means for social media and free speech
- Favelas and rental cars: lessons about property rights
- Attorney voucher programs and criminal justice reform
- The regressive aspects of progressive economic policies
- No, the atrocities in Bucha are not a false flag
- Five myths about inflation
- How a Reddit April Fools’ joke can explain spontaneous order
- The Prague Spring: planting the seeds of freedom
- Why libertarians oppose fraud — in 300 words
- Five myths about healthcare
March 2022
- Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is about state censorship, not parental rights
- Self-ownership and libertarianism: we must fully own ourselves to be free
- How do we justify property rights?
- Just war; unjust conscription
- What can Russians do to help Ukraine?
- Ukraine and the struggle for liberty
- Ukrainians stand defiant in the face of Putin’s aggression
- What makes Ayn Rand so significant
February 2022
- Freedom Convoy: Justin Trudeau chooses repression over removing mandates
- Why free speech is good ― in 300 words
- Ukraine’s foreign policy is a matter for Ukrainians, not Putin
- Why modernity is unthinkable without capitalism
January 2022
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December 2021
- The post-Soviet world, 30 years on
- Legends of Liberty: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Legends of Liberty: Carl Menger
- Build Back Better is more about handouts than human infrastructure
- Legends of Liberty: Ed O’Bannon
- Marijuana taxation will undo the benefits of legalization
- Legends of Liberty: Lenny Bruce
November 2021
- Legends of Liberty: Arlo Guthrie
- Legends of Liberty: Lysander Spooner
- Botswana: a triumph of capitalism in Africa
- Legends of Liberty: Thomas Sowell
- A tax on unrealized capital gains would have unprecedented destructive potential
- Legends of Liberty: Frederic Bastiat
October 2021
- Legends of Liberty: Ayn Rand
- Objectivism: a philosophical defense of liberty
- We cannot continue to ignore the root causes of America’s debt crisis
- Atlas Shrugged: a masterpiece with a lasting impact
September 2021
- 7 shocking incidents created by lockdown restrictions
- U.S. sanctions are not responsible for the Cuban economic crisis
- A global minimum tax rate will stifle competition and hurt consumers
August 2021
July 2021
May 2021
March 2021
2020 1
February 2020
2018 6
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
2017 376
December 2017
- The politics of "The Last Jedi"
- Tear down those statues
- How the government ruined health care for those who need it most
November 2017
October 2017
- Life isn’t fair, but can government help that?
- The dirty word that gives us our freedom
- 3 reasons why the NRA is so powerful
- Looking at randomness but seeing conspiracies
- Do NFL players have the right to take the knee?
- Is the USA really the highest-taxed nation in the world?
- Why compassionate people should reject Bernie’s single-payer health care plan
- Notes from the bubble
- There's one situation where classical liberals can justify foreign intervention.
- How Obamacare fails breastfeeding mothers
September 2017
- The timber industry illustrates exactly what's wrong with international trade restrictions.
- This is the best way to provide relief after a hurricane.
- Ilya Somin on Game of Thrones and voter ignorance — highlights from his AMA
- Stop saying that! Limited liability does not mean what you think it means.
- What’s wrong with being a rich kid with rich parents?
- Who are the most generous helpers in the wake of Hurricane Irma?
- The real reason young people can’t get jobs in Africa
- Permissionless innovation: The fuzzy idea that rules our lives
- What politicians really mean when they say they're pro-business
- FEMA should not favor zoos over houses of worship
- Of Confederate monuments and tinfoil Christmas trees
- What most Americans have never heard about extreme poverty
- Reddit AMA with Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University
- How the government makes natural disasters so much worse
- Will voters punish Republicans for not changing health care?
- Most benefits of eating local are wildly exaggerated, and this is why
- How this screwy IRS policy kickstarted the American health care crisis
- Will capitalism kill its own culture?
- Why some people think Hurricane Harvey is good for the economy (and why they are wrong)
August 2017
- Will the Warriors win forever? The NBA's problem with team balance
- How “price gouging” could help Houston right now
- Why a Canadian city tore down the staircase its residents had always wanted to build
- Why the state hurts parents and kids — and how to make it stop
- Breaking the wheel of Westeros: why heroes aren't enough
- How taxing the rich paradoxically resulted in more inequality for all
- Millennials are in a love triangle with capitalism and socialism
- It’s useless to yell at racists. So what can we do about them?
- Diary of a stupid jerk: why we need free speech on campus
- Ugly, senseless, hateful speech — it’s still not violence
- The first federal criminal case on female genital mutilation will test the limits of religious liberty.
- Why you vote for corn syrup even though it might be killing you
- If you want to be free, it's time to break through your own resistance.
- What is “risk preference,” you ask? Consider the waffle…
- Why new mothers usually don't sue doctors who violate their rights
- You’re probably going to rate your next AirBnB at 5 stars after reading this
- Capitalism could save lives with the most boring innovation of all
- Why you’re just as greedy as a corporate CEO
- Reddit AMA with Professor Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University
- Here’s the best part about the anti-Trump #resistance
- The problem with Trump saying “you’re fired” to transgender military personnel
- August reading challenge: An economist’s top 5 picks
July 2017
- How capitalists can create value by reducing waste
- Ron Swanson explains property rights with sandwiches and landmines
- Vaping bans: How the FDA is making it harder to quit smoking
- Innovation in healthcare could be dangerous, but the alternative is worse.
- Federalism is not unfair.
- What your buying habits can tell you about big government
- Entrepreneurs are evading regulations to bring you beer and marijuana cleanses.
- Most social scientists can’t predict the future. But this philosopher did.
- How thinking harder will let you eat more bacon
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Michael Munger
- Doctors violate American women’s rights in delivery rooms every day.
- What you don’t know really can’t hurt you, but coercion can.
- Rebellion or stability: Which makes a healthier nation?
- How everyone gets a bargain at the swap meet
- Did big government make us rich?
- How people really decide whether to date you: The cost-benefit analysis of love.
- Reddit AMA with Professor Michael Munger of Duke University
- A minimum wage for pro baseball players?
- No, corporations are not "people." But the First Amendment still applies.
- This Fourth of July, let’s celebrate colonial failure.
- Who has Walmart shareholders’ wealth?
June 2017
- Breaking up Spain: Secession and individual rights
- This company helps African farmers secure their land rights.
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Bryan Caplan
- Why your boss isn’t ripping you off. Marxism 101 debunked.
- The Brits are getting their freedom back. Well, some of it anyway.
- Amazon is about to buy Whole Foods. Is it time to panic?
- No, you can’t multitask. To succeed, you need to focus.
- Does the market make us good? Does socialism?
- The right to refuse service? Business owners and gay marriage
- Why we can’t break up with our stuff — yet
- Why I deserve what you created: word count welfare
- What Charles Darwin owes Adam Smith
- Reddit AMA with Economist and Iconoclast, Professor Bryan Caplan
- How the FDA hides its true costs — dollars lost and progress delayed
- What to expect when you’re expecting: Lots of weird regulations and obscure laws
- Sports betting should be legal across the country. Here’s why.
- Why my students dump their boyfriends (and girlfriends): The 3 most eye-opening ideas in economics
- Government surveillance and academic thought policing are taking us to 1984.
- Free Speech, Muhammad Cartoons, and Islamism in Europe: Dave Rubin’s Interview with Flemming Rose
- Lawnmowing licenses: Crony capitalism in action
- Flip or Flop? What home flipping shows don’t tell you
- Dave Rubin and Deirdre McCloskey: Free Trade, Trans in Academia, and the (Classical) Liberal Heritage — Full Interview
- Do you have a license to mow that lawn? 5 ways occupational licensing laws hurt (almost) everyone
- The economist’s real job: to save the public from itself
- African animals need to be owned to survive
May 2017
- What’s wrong with gun control? The same thing that’s wrong with immigration restrictions.
- The king is dead, long live chaos! Why Hobbes was wrong and Burke was right.
- Minimum wage laws don’t help the poor — opportunities do
- Education, Free Speech, and Elite “Temper Tantrums”: Interview with Dave Rubin and Joanna Williams
- Suffering is Venezuela’s new normal.
- Ritual sacrifice of chickens: religious freedom vs animal cruelty laws
- Forget about your passion. (Advice for new grads)
- Why the First Amendment is ‘first in importance’
- The Chicago Generation?
- The economics of romance in Beauty and the Beast
- Why you can’t fill a sled with Slurpee today
- How to make economics not boring
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Sarah Burns
- Immigration policy is first and foremost about property rights
- Best Selling Computer Game of All Time Teaches… Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Cooperation?
- Is victim culture spreading beyond the university?
- The origins of money: What’s at stake?
- How immigration gave rise to American pop culture
- How “regulatory dark matter” blocks innovation
- Economist Jokes: A Typology
- Why Freud still matters (even though he was wrong about almost everything)
- What baseball betting teaches us about how markets deal with profit opportunities
- Creative destruction made my iPod obsolete
- Islam and classical liberalism: Are they compatible?
- “Walk your bike!” — Formal rules and informal order
- Reddit AMA with Professor Sarah Burns, scholar of the American founding
- Confront, slander, reject: The anti-intellectual legacy of Karl Marx
- Confident Pluralism: Reinvigorating the freedom of association
- Abusive leaders threaten African progress
- Why My Pit Bull Lives like a King
- What Charles Koch could teach United Airlines
April 2017
- The Constitutional Rights of Noncitizens
- Are Immigration Restrictions Required by Individual Rights?
- The health care shell game: Why not leave health care policy to the states?
- A Letter to a Minimum Wage Denialist
- What Classical Liberals Get Wrong About Political Science
- Private School Vouchers Do Not Subsidize Religion
- The Harmony and Balance of Virtue and Liberty
- Do we live in a victim culture?
- Blame outdated rights for California's water woes.
- Climate change is not a tragedy of the commons
- Who does occupational licensing protect?
- Earth Day has become polluted by ideology and ignorance
- The Long History of Music Piracy
- What the gold standard is and why government killed it
- Here’s why the tax code is so huge.
- How the Bureau of Prisons locked down “compassionate release.”
- Is your state’s income tax keeping star athletes away?
- Debate: Is Ayn Rand right about rights?
- Where does money come from?: Two schools of thought
- Where does money come from?: Two schools of thought (part ii)
- Religion and Totalitarianism
- How the Economy Isn’t Like a Jigsaw Puzzle
- Let’s take back the meaning of “pro-choice”
- Did Trump’s attack on Syria violate the Constitution?
- Is Judicial Review Undemocratic?
- What should we think about anti-protesting laws?
- How to Stop Politicians From Gerrymandering
- The Progressive War: Woodrow Wilson and the US entry into WWI
- The skeptics are wrong. Religion and classical liberalism can coexist.
- How would Neil Gorsuch rule on One Person One Vote?
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Lauren Hall
- Income Inequality or Income Mobility: For What Should We Fight?
- Markets work with altruism, too
- Quietly creating freedom: Private communities and special economic zones
- Are Americans getting too much healthcare?
- Don't raise Uncle Sam's credit limit
- Do government employees have a right to religious liberty?
March 2017
- Happy birthday to René Descartes, father of methodological skepticism
- Elinor Ostrom, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and learning to see the women who have shaped the world
- Cut your writing down to size: 4 bad writing habits you need to quit for your career
- Bryan Caplan: Is immigration a basic human right?
- Emma Watson is right. Feminism is about choice.
- Fashion design and copyright
- Women work for equality — but these 3 policy ideas don’t
- A road map for college students interested in a career advancing liberty
- 6 women who should be on the $20 bill
- Entitlements driving Washington to trillion-dollar deficits
- Why classical liberals need a research program
- The Filibuster: A Primer
- Supposed FBI investigations into refugees shouldn’t scare you
- Want to help women? Lower marginal tax rates
- How regulations block economic progress
- Anne Hutchinson: The spirit of religious liberty
- Famine is about freedom, not just food
- The classical liberal case against nationalist immigration restrictions
- Promises and the right to resist injustice
- Healthcare will never be affordable without action on prices
- Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes
- Entrepreneurs create value for disabled workers.
- Why libertarians should oppose the Universal Basic Income
- Where did the presidency get all these powers? From Congress.
- History, progress, and the fate of gay marriage
- Trump, Trade, and Great Power War
- Reddit AMA with Lauren Hall, scholar of women and the family
- Defense spending: Why we pay for the permanent war economy
- It’s never worth playing the Olympic game
- Violent video games do not cause real-world aggression
- Stop toxic partisan posts: Take the social media pledge.
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Libertarian Feminist
- Democracy rewards those who lust for power.
- Airport economics: The tragedy of the overhead bins
- How birthright citizenship made America great
- Liberty and "social" justice for all is impossible
- Entitlement reform key to fixing America’s fiscal future
- Remembering the forgotten women, victims of government
- How urban planners broke Brooklyn
- What should we do about luck?
- The moral dimensions of liberty; Why goodness requires freedom
- Why don’t humans kill each other like we used to?
- Civil asset forfeiture: resist, reform, repeal
- Andrew Jackson is a bad role model for the president
- Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation
- Why it would be madness to produce all our own food
- The meaning of American populism
- Vivien Kellems: "Please Indict Me!"
- The House GOP leadership’s health care bill is ObamaCare-Lite — or worse
- 3 women who inspired the modern libertarian movement
- Huge net costs from Trump’s new executive order cutting refugees
- Won't someone think about the disemployed steel workers?
- In celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Why we’re being watched: Top 6 Learn Liberty resources for understanding the new CIA leaks
- Thinking through your March Madness bracket pool
- Yes, free speech for fascists — a confession
- Market demand is reforming farm ethics
- In praise of safe spaces on campus
- Turn off the rage machine: Stop reading the news
- Women prosper when markets are free
- The revised “travel ban” is much better legally
- The battle to make America wet again
- The less work required, the happier we’ll be
- 42 percent of “terrorism-related” convictions aren’t for terrorism
- Anonymity and doxing in the 1787 ratification debates
- The business case for supersonic overland
- Why sex work should be legal
- Exports only matter because they let us import
- Here are 10 classic films that will make you question government
- Refugees, immigration, and the trolley problem
- “Social justice lawyers” won’t save law school
- When to walk away: Overcoming the sunk cost fallacy
- The key questions any Obamacare replacement must answer
- Trump’s bad economic reasoning on infrastructure
- Why congressional term limits could limit presidential power
- How a telephone company used the government to monopolize an industry for decades
- The right to hope for jury nullification
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Fabio Rojas
- Who makes the mountain paths? Freedom and the embrace of uncertainty.
- What federalism does for individual liberty
February 2017
- Was Marbury v. Madison a judicial power grab?
- Cutting legal immigration won’t help low-skilled American workers
- We are all living red-carpet lives now.
- Why requiring Muslim visitors to register with Homeland Security is unjust
- Individual liberty for a diverse society: Public reason liberalism
- Is taxation theft?
- Was Obamacare truly evil, or just a missed opportunity?
- If you want to persuade people, stop “winning” arguments
- The free society is an open society
- 3 Oscar films for the radical individualist
- What America needs most right now is more economic freedom.
- What you should know about the Non-Aggression Principle
- Baristas with BAs: The result of central planning for schools
- Will President Trump kill capitalism?
- Donald Trump: The avatar of democracy
- Trump's proposed wall and tax are folly
- Why aid programs are harder to evaluate than dessert shops
- Rawls the Irrelevant
- A (Revised) Theory of Justice
- The most important part of networking
- Presidents for life and the problem of democracy
- The many faces of means-testing
- The bell curve of anti-slavery
- America has a bad case of “Whataboutism”
- Weird election rules: The baseball hall of fame
- Reddit AMA with Fabio Rojas, Professor of Sociology at Indiana University
- Trade restrictions imperil our standard of living
- How processing payments with Bitcoin is different than cash, banks
- Why even mass-murdering white supremacists, like Dylann Roof, should not receive the death penalty
- What is a cryptocurrency?
- Demystifying Bitcoin
- Better market-oriented proposals that reduce income inequality
- Was Jeremy Bentham a Classical Liberal at heart?
- This Valentine’s Day, the chocolate supply is in turmoil.
- War, diplomacy, and global uncertainty in the Trump era
- Civil servants should not lose their jobs for committing thought crimes.
- The introvert’s guide to ISFLC
- What if we are not racists after all?
- William Graham Sumner Part 4 – Charity, Liberty, and Social Justice
- William Graham Sumner Part 3 – The Forgotten Man
- William Graham Sumner Part 2—The Rejection of Social Darwinism
- William Graham Sumner Part 1 – Laissez-Faire and Social Darwinism
- “America First!” and Anti-Social Communitarianism
- Learn Liberty Turns 6
- Constitutional crisis or the Constitution at work?
- Judicial "Activism" vs. Judicial "Engagement"
- When Nazis were Nazis: Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night
- Explaining the Protectionist Instinct
- What the Patriots' Super Bowl win can teach you about comparative advantage
- A paradox in the theory of democracy
- Make Compromise Great Again: Arthur Schlesinger and the politics of the extreme
- How to find your North Star
- You’re in Joseph Schumpeter’s economy now.
- Why Sessions is sailing and DeVos is struggling
- The moral and spiritual blessings of trade among all nations
- Libertarians you’ve never heard of: Lydia Maria Child
- 7 wardrobe mistakes to avoid at ISFLC
- He’s not my president because none of them are.
- Deregulation gets the beer flowing.
- How ISFLC helped me land a Cato internship
- “Really, really, really bad” — Why Trump hates Super PACs
- The rules of trade
- Inflate-gate: How the NFL exaggerates the value of the Super Bowl
- Did the democrat’s hacked emails give voters too much info?
- Immanuel Kant: Philosopher of Freedom
- Crony-in-Chief: Donald Trump epitomizes Ayn Rand’s “Aristocracy of Pull.”
- What interest rates really are and what happens when governments change them
- Lunar prisoners fight for freedom in Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
January 2017
- Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Isaac Morehouse
- Advice from cops: Don’t talk to cops
- Trump is wrong: Muslim immigration is reducing radical Islamism
- Obama’s cruel policy reversal on Cuban refugees
- 8 Networking Tips for ISFLC 2017
- So did Obamanomics work or not?
- Can states forcibly unionize small businesses?
- Diversity: The best argument for school choice
- Taxing global trade is not deregulation
- 3 reasons why school-choice profits are a good thing
- America changed, and the Rust Belt failed to adapt
- Obama’s constitutional legacy
- Why you should encrypt — and 3 tools to get started right now
- Trump's order on sanctuary cities is dangerous and unconstitutional
- We need less politics and more private governance
- How school vouchers can help children with disabilities
- 5 weird ways Prohibition still exists today
- The political left’s shmoo theory of education
- New IRS data show that 71% of US taxpayers who make it into the ‘Top 400’ are there for only a single year
- 5 types of school choice: Which has the least government involvement?
- Commerce is pointing the way to a more peaceful and prosperous Cuba.
- Importers are exporters, exporters are importers. Slapping tariffs on imports would hurt our most competitive firms
- Against international economics as a sub-discipline
- How to Pursue an Impractical Career
- President Trump's 6 biggest threats to liberty
- Trump’s First 100 Days — Learn Liberty Roundtable
- Did Trump win because of backlash against political correctness?
- "The Raven": Trump Edition
- Edgar Allan Poe’s hilarious, horrifying vision of the future
- Reddit AMA with Isaac Morehouse, founder of Praxis, Tuesday January 24th
- Why education isn’t a public good — and why government doesn’t have to provide it
- Not your business: Let restaurant owners make their own decisions
- Everybody missed the point of Westworld
- How entrepreneurs can make better schools for real kids
- Car crashes and hockey fights — how safety mandates can make life more dangerous
- The millennial marriage drought
- A champion of “absolutely unlimited competition” in education
- What standard should we use to judge school choice?
- Turning away Cuban refugees is a victory for Cuba's dictatorship
- University athletes punished for bad thoughts
- Stop calling out the hypocrites
- Political parties are just shopping bags for ideas
- Why schools should be businesses (sort of)
- Why people fail at New Year’s resolutions — and how you can succeed
- What is college good for?
- How to get millions of people working for you
- The international currency playoffs
- Two minimum wage charts for the minimum wage supporter
- Do colleges have an edifice complex, an amenities arms race, or both?
- Countries are not companies
- Christmas gifts are a hassle. Why do we bother?
- The robber barons weren't robbers. Here's why.
- 4 New Year's resolutions for the Trump administration
- Finally, a libertarian defense of identity politics
- Making college “free” will only make it more expensive.
- School choice benefits teachers too
- How to be a light for liberty in the new year
- What should libertarians think about the Civil War?
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December 2016
- Liberalism reconstructed for a world divided
- Why riots happen
- Rogue One and the Politics of Star Wars
- Indian Prime Minister's shake down of private wealth
- Does inequality make us miserable?
- Over-Criminalization Nation — 5 Blood-Boiling Cases of Government Overreach
- The black hole of Pentagon finance
- 13 books every well-rounded libertarian should read
- What makes a person a person?
- Trump inherits a super-powered presidency.
- Does the constitution require a war on Christmas?
- Some economics of Christmas
- The supply curve explained — with cookies
- It’s Your Right to Burn the Flag
- Democracy goes to (electoral) college
- Encryption is a human rights issue: Your privacy and free speech depend on it
- The case of post-Soviet Georgia shows us that economic freedom and human dignity are inseparable
- Naughty and Nice 2016: Who made the list?
- 11 key facts about Americans’ attitudes toward the Police
- Is culture the key to poverty?
- Trump’s ban on immigration from certain countries is illegal
- Privilege, Risk, and Harm
- Bureaucracy buries the human spirit with paperwork
- An economic analysis of protectionism clearly shows that Trump’s tariffs would make us poorer, not greater
- Why do gangs rule American prisons?
- How to get your progressive friends to understand the minimum wage
- Markets make your holiday feast bigger, better, and cheaper than ever
- The three most pressing threats to liberty
- Capitalism & slavery
- 15 holiday gifts for the liberty lover
- 3 libertarian takeaways from South Park season 20 (SPOILERZ)
- A rising stock market does not signal economic health
- The imperfect assumptions of perfect competition
- The myth of draining the swamp
- The dumbest thing Batman ever said
- The biggest threat on campus
- ‘I am a Liberal’: How one man brought down Britain’s national ID system
- Fiscal and economic implications of higher interest rates
- When fans become creators
- The right to die: Anti-euthanasia laws make no sense
- Trump’s Secretary of Education pick is good news for religious freedom.
- Would you give up the Internet for a million dollars?
- The business of giving: What are we receiving?
- Dirty jobs vs Liberal arts: Elitism for everybody
- Did the US provoke Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?
- How U.S. economic warfare provoked Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
- A political economist explains the best way to shrink the government in 9 charts
- Failing better: What we learn by confronting risk and uncertainty
- Let’s replace the college football selection committee — with math.
- Highlights from the Reddit AMA with Professor Antony Davies
- Raise a glass to the 21st amendment!
- Election results: Chocolate chip cookie wins again
- Animal-loving entrepreneur succeeds despite anti-cat regulators
- Team Trump is paying off special interests before he even takes office
- Defending privilege in a world of disruptive innovation
- Democracy limits bad government in the long haul.
- In democracy, minorities are ignored and the voters are ignorant.
- Identity politics elected Trump
November 2016
- How Castro Is Like The Minimum Wage
- Why police brutality laws don’t seem to matter in America
- Pay for bone marrow, save lives
- Collective punishment at Harvard University
- Reddit AMA with Professor Antony Davies today, Monday, November 28th at 7:00pm EST
- Healing through decentralization
- How defending capitalism is like recycling
- Nativists created our immigration problems—they can’t fix them
- Getting prices right for the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Top libertarian moments in Gilmore Girls
- The role of government: schools of thought in classical liberalism
- A place where your vote matters
- How schools and the media cover up communist crimes
- What is classical liberalism?
- A theory of justice, post-Trump edition
- What you missed: Week of 11/18
- The double thank you of the market
- The right drug policy: decriminalize and discourage
- Trump’s real immigration policy
- Here are 7 lesser-known classical liberal thinkers for your World Philosophy Day
- Resist the pressure to conform: Tocqueville’s warning
- Does paying college football coaches corrupt the sport? Then why not pay the athletes themselves?
- New anti-Airbnb law protects hotels from competition (and violates private property and freedom of exchange)
- What will Donald Trump’s presidency mean for the Federal Reserve?
- What is the point of reading?
- What happens when you raise the minimum wage?
- A hero is worth 1,000 words
- Can economics make baseball more fun for fans?
- What you missed: Post-election edition
- Common law gave you real property ownership
- Relief from wars & politics
- Why don’t we allow markets to dictate parking policy?
- The best films to teach your friends about economics and government
- AT&T Requires Police to Hide Hemisphere Phone Spying
- Buy 'em out – a new strategy for cutting government
- People hate Hillary Clinton because she is good at her job
- Partisan politics makes smart people stupid
- Debate: Is democracy overrated? No.
- Debate: Is democracy overrated? Yes.
- Mercantilist Burglars
- How transactions that raise America’s trade deficit enrich Americans
- It’s time to face Obamacare’s problems
- Populism is not an ideology
- Sobering up: Why the war on marijuana should be over soon
- Why Enterprise Is an Honorable Calling
- Remember, Remember the 5th of November
- “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,” writes Facebook acquaintance with fundamental misunderstanding of political philosophy
- What you missed: Week of 11/4
- Election 2016: politics when government becomes a weapon
- The devaluation of higher education
- John Oliver runs out of election jokes; SNL still not funny
- More questions for Trump and other protectionists and mercantilists
- If you support legalizing weed, you should also support legalizing crack
- Do animals have rights? Professors Bryan Caplan and Michael Huemer discuss
October 2016
- The Gothic and the Literature of Liberty
- Women in the draft: The wrong kind of equality
- Halloween is for Irish people only; for anyone else, it’s racist cultural appropriation
- One economist’s final words before being devoured by zombies
- Solar energy can’t survive without massive subsidies
- The economics within Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Why Doug (like other low-income Americans) doesn’t trust authority
- Competition makes the world beautiful: The early years of rock
- Economic freedom and economic harmony
- What you missed: Week of 10/28
- Government puts tobacco interests above a billion lives
- Trade Deficit ≠ Debt
- The dystopian novel that foresaw the nightmares of socialism
- Every 25 seconds: Human Rights Watch and the ACLU document more harms from drug prohibition
- Clergy should be able to preach without fear
- Apolitical reasons to hate politics
- The best person to plan your next flight is you
- Non-youers’ trade deficit with you
- Should the government step in to outlaw discrimination?
- France’s burkini ban fights Islamic oppression with secular oppression
- What you missed: Week of 10/21
- The welfare state is a (bad) polygamist
- Of course your candidate won the debate
- Which is worse?
- Cash is not the enemy; central banks are
- Advocates of limited government should oppose the death penalty
- How a 19th century French pamphleteer preempted two centuries of economic fallacies
- Yes, there's an Envelope Lobby, and they're more powerful than you might think
- Reasons to be optimistic
- Highlights from Professor Steve Horwitz's AMA
- Spontaneous cooperation is why your life rocks
- The co-bots are coming to fast food factories
- Yet another comically bad caricature of libertarianism
- Was Nietzsche a libertarian?
- What You Missed: Week of 10/14
- Senator Tom Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo spread four myths about immigration
- Visit Cuba? The pros and cons of American tourism
- Let’s tax the iPhone to save BlackBerry
- The answer is a new government program. What’s the question?
- Why Refugees Find Jobs Faster in the U.S. Than Germany
- You Have a Constitutional Right to Record Public Officials in Public
- After the last debate, I’m convinced America needs to reform the two-party system
- Tired of expensive football tickets? Blame yourself
- Elon Musk is no capitalist hero, but he’s no Bond villain either
- Protect Pangolins: Promote Trade, Don’t Ban It
- Trump's trade policy hurts American consumers and misunderstands patriotism
- Kristen Bell Criticizes Wage Gap, Unintentionally Debunks It
- Upcoming Reddit AMA With Professor Steve Horwitz, Thursday October 13th
- The Police Know Where You Live
- The Week in Review: Cannabis, Chess, and Market Competition
- Should Paid Surrogacy Be Illegal?
- Volunteer Work Reveals The Inefficiencies of Government Aid
- What If #FreeCollege Actually Hurts The Very Students It Is Supposed to Help?
- To Reduce Concussions in the NFL, Reduce the Amount of Equipment
- Religion vs. Abortion, Explained
- Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?
- The Legacy of President Obama's Pardon Power
- How Americans Can Use Economic Principles to Fight Terrorism
- Profit Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word In Drug Development
- The history of Red China should serve as a warning about today
- Is Mobility a Right or a Privilege?
- The Immigration Debate, Explained with Kinder Surprise Chocolate Eggs
September 2016
- The Week in Review: Presidential Debates, Police Accountability, and Overridden Vetos
- Why Government Doubles Down on Policy Mistakes
- Improving Grand Juries
- Explainer: What You Should Know About NAFTA
- What Cannabis Activism And Free Speech Activism Have in Common
- Free trade brings abundance — protectionism brings scarcity
- The Estate Tax is a Fundamentally Flawed Economic Policy
- Low-Skilled Immigrants Are Still Not Harming Low-Skilled Natives
- Peyote, Alcohol, and Religious Liberty
- Debate Recap: How Did Trump and Clinton Perform?
- Defending Middlemen
- The Terrorism Risk of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: The Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey Terrorist Attacks
- A Proposal to Reform Welfare and Rebuild American Community
- Grand Jury Nullification
- To Vote or Not To Vote, That Is The Question
- George Washington's Letter to the Jews
- How Politics Corrupts Scholarship
- No, Unions Don't Increase Everyone's Wages
- The Week in Review: #BlackLivesMatter, African American History, and The Syrian Ceasefire Dissolves
- Are Silicon Valley's Chaos Makers Smart or Insane?
- What Economists Mean When They Say People Act "Rationally"
- The Cajun Navy at the Prow: How Civil Society Responds to Disaster
- Colin Kaepernick's Protest Is What Makes America Unique
- Is the 2016 Election Rigged?
- Ethicists Statement on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors
- Trump Jr.’s Terrorism-Skittles Bowl Analogy
- 5 Myths About School Choice
- How Much Would Be Lost if Uber Simply Went Away?
- Are Novels Cultural Appropriation?
- You Might Be Fined for Selling Your Car
- Friday Links
- The Right to Sit During the Pledge of Allegiance
- Despicable Me’s Gru Is an Example of the Entrepreneur No One Wants to Have Around
- The Unspoken Truth About Government Policies That Are Supposed to Help People
- Four Unconventional Fantasy Football Insights to Help You Win Your League
- Are Giant Rats Free Speech?
- There's No Such Thing as Too Much Profit
- How the Amish Led the Fight Against Compulsory Schooling
- Hamilton Tells the Story of a Great Historical Figure, but Misses Some of the History
- Alexander Hamilton, a Second-Hand Dealer in Retrograde Mercantilist Ideas
- The Obamacare Horror Stories Aren’t Slowing Down
- The iPhone 7 of Healthcare
- Markets Are Breaking Down India’s Caste System, Turning Untouchables into Millionaires
- YouTube's Attempt to Protect Viewers From Controversial Opinions Will Backfire
- Friday Links
- Oath Taking and Religious Liberty in American History
- Senate Votes for Equal Slavery for Women
- Foreign Aid Is Taking Money From Poor People in Rich Countries and Giving it to Rich People in Poor Countries
- Nintendo's Rebooted NES Console a Nostalgic Reminder of Our Economic Progress
- The Undesired Outcomes of Nation Building
- Colin Kaepernick and the Freedom Not to Speak
- How the Free Market Created Impressionism
- From brain drain to skills-flow: How high-skilled immigrants makes us all better off
- Dear France, Stop Encouraging Terrorism and Oppressing Women
- Why Isn't There Chaos When Traffic Lights Malfunction?
- Science: A Short Story
- When Jobs Kill Wealth
- Pokemon Go an Example of the Superiority of Market Solutions to Government Solutions
- How Free Speech Protects Property
- Friday Links
- Why Chairs Are Cheap and EpiPens Are Expensive
- A History of Accomodating Religious Objections to War
- How Economics Can Explain Foreign Policy Failures
- The Fatal Conceit of Youthful Idealism
- Why I'm Thrilled That There Are More Startups Than Ever and Most of Them Fail
August 2016
- Will This News Stop You From Protesting?
- Criminal Justice Reform's Big Win in The Release of Weldon Angelos
- If Markets Fail, Governments Fail Harder
- Protectionism is Robbery
- Police Misconduct Upends the Role of Government
- John Locke’s top 5 radical political ideas
- Protecting Religious Liberty and the Common Good Aren't Mutually Exclusive
- “I Have a Dream,” 50 Years Later
- Emmett Till Was Murdered 61 Years Ago, But Racism Lives On
- Minimum-Grade Legislation, Revised Edition
- Friday Links
- Why the Worst Get On Top: Class of 2016
- Poverty Declined After Welfare Reform
- How Far Does $100 Get You In Your State?
- Obscure Economic Theory Explains Why Your Taxes Subsidize Unpopular Special Interest Groups
- The Welfare Cliff and Why Many Low-Income Workers Will Never Overcome Poverty
- Self-Driving Ubers on a Collision Course With Regulators
- The Growing Politicization of Healthcare Thanks to Obamacare
- How to Deal with a Non-Violent Bigot
- Suspended Licenses Are The New Debtor’s Prison
- Louisiana Floods Reveal Age Old Broken Window Fallacy
- What You Need to Know About the Justice Department Prison Announcement
- Nudge Theory: How Policymakers Secretly Influence You to Make the Decisions They Want You to Make
- Some Reflections on Whether We Should Abandon Religious Liberty
- Why a “Job-Killing” Trade Program Deserves Americans’ Support
- When to Use Heuristics and When to Use Rational Thought
- Heuristics: The Tool That Will Equip You to Make Faster Decisions Than Ever Before
- Hotels Don’t Need New York to Regulate Airbnb
- The Case for Eliminating the Olympic Games
- Here’s Who I’m Blaming for Hamilton’s Exorbitant Ticket Prices
- Trade and Specialization Are the Essence of Our Well-Being
- Why I’m Excited About the Summer Olympics and Rio’s de Janeiro’s Financial Crisis
- FBI’s Exoneration of Clinton Illustrates Danger of “Two Americas”
- What’s Controversial Today May be a Classic Tomorrow
- Why Private Businesses Can Discriminate Against Someone Like Bina Ramesh
- Professor: Feminism Is Teaching Women to Become Vulnerable, Not Empowered
- The Difference Between Microaggressions and Hate Speech
- Why Brazil Gets to Host the Olympics Despite Its Financial Problems
- Getting Rid of Inheritances Still Wouldn’t Solve America’s Inequality Problem
- Lessons from Venezuela, as Told by a Venezuelan
- Medicinal psychedelics are the new frontier in the movement to decriminalize drugs
- College Professor Writes “Sexual Paranoia” Essay, Is Put Under Title IX Investigation
- Comedians Avoid College Campuses, Thanks to Free Speech Crackdown
- How One Theory You Never Heard of Explains Everything Donald Trump Does
- The Right to Be Offended Allows Us to Conquer the Very Things That Offend Us
- The Government Spent 20 Years and Billions of Dollars on a Fighter Jet that Doesn’t Work
- Globalization Isn't Killing Factory Jobs. Trade Is Actually Why Manufacturing Is up 40 Percent
- The Surprising, Terrifying Truth About the World Anti-Doping Association
- The Society That Will Help You Bolster Your Libertarian Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List
- Blog Contest: Professors Who Inspire
- Brexit Illustrates Why Voting Is One of the Worst Ways to Make Decisions
- Rio’s Olympic Hangover
July 2016
- The Connection between Sport and Classical Liberalism
- What Would Milton Do?
- The Shared Experiences of the Sharing Economy
- If Only The DC Metro Cared as Much About Fires as They Do Potential Fare Evaders
- 7 Fantasy/Science Fiction Epics That Can Inform You About the Real-World Political Scene
- Military Industrial Complex Poses Major Threat to Liberty at Home
- Are Foreign and Domestic Policy Really that Different?
- A Rule Meant to Reduce Neurosurgeon's Fatigue Went Terribly Wrong
- Read This Novel Before You Read the News
- It's Time to Stop Banning Child Labor, and This Is Why
- Why Police Now Look Like Soldiers
- Star Trek Is Far from Libertarian — Here’s Why
- When Your Foreign Spying Program Become a Tool to Control Your Own People
- Venezuela vs. Ecuador (Chavismo vs. Chavismo Dollarized)
- Policy Leaders Call This "The Worst Trade Deal Ever Negotiated." Here's How It's Impacting Americans.
- Why Addressing America's "Monopoly Problem" Would Be a Problem
- Why the Refusal to File Criminal Charges Against Hillary Clinton Is a Good Thing
- A History of Police Militarization
- Modern Libertarians Have a Lot to Learn from This Moment in History
- What to Do After You've Overthrown the Government
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation: We Have a “Responsibility” to Subsidize the Hyperloop
- Podcast: Prof. Sarah Burns Explains Exactly How America Was Founded
- The Consequences of Ignoring Economics in Public Policy
- How a Few New Ideas Caused an Entire Group of People to Turn on Their Country
- A Closer Look at the Taxes That Led to America’s Founding
- This One Dysfunctional Military Practice Might Be Responsible for the Existence of the United States
- Why the Founding Fathers Risked Everything for an Untried Idea
- Clinton Shifts Her Strategy on Student Debt, and It Isn’t Good for Anyone
- Why the American Revolution Was Really an Economic Revolution
- The Obvious, Costless Way to Solve the Problem of Diversity Among College Professors
- Muhammad Ali Defeated A Lot Of Opponents. He Cannot, However, Defeat The Laws Of Supply And Demand.
- What to Reflect On This Independence Day
- Where the Candidates Stand on Immigration
June 2016
- Candidates Divided on the One Issue That Is Ruining Millions of Young Lives
- Millennials Like Socialism — Until They Get Jobs
- Why Abby Can’t Work, and What Candidates Plan to Do About It.
- How Government Helps White Criminals
- Presidential Candidates Have No Idea How to Stop Terrorism
- Supreme Court Opens Door for More 'Stop-and-Frisk'
- How the Presidential Frontrunners Plan to Win the War on Drugs
- The Issue That's Forcing Republicans and Democrats to Finally Agree on Something
- Americans Owe It to Themselves to Consider Reparations for Marginalized Minorities
- The Semester Is Over, But Your Intellectual Journey Doesn’t Have to Stop
- Why the D.C. Metro Sucks When It Doesn’t Have To
- Putin’s Crackdown on Social Media Provides One Important Reminder to Americans
- One Novel’s Perfect Analogy Shows Exactly What Happens When We Try to Censor Human Thought
- Court to North Carolina State: Stop Requiring Students to Get a License to Speak
- You Need to Consider the Moral Aspects of “Feeling the Bern”
- Government Goes into Debt to Help the Poor, Ends up Stealing from Them Instead
- Venezuela, Socialism, and The Unlearned Lessons of Political Economy
- The Chilling Parallels Between The Paris and Orlando Shootings
- Raising the Minimum Wage Cannot Benefit the Economy
- Three Years After the Snowden Leaks: What We’ve Learned
- Don Quixote is First Anti Race-Based Slavery Novel
- Your "Right to Vote" Includes a Right That Most People Don't Think About
- Government Neglects Public Parks, Raises Taxes, to Subsidize Private Stadium
- 72 Years After D-Day, One Professor Asks What It Would Take for You to Fight for Your Liberty
- Ohio Legalizes Medicinal Marijauna, Providing a Happy Ending to One Girl's Story
- A Dysfunctional TSA Shows Exactly What’s Wrong with Our Government
- The Dark, Dystopian Novel That Should Be at the Top of Your 2016 Reading List
- Privatize the TSA!
- A Little White Lie I Told as a Camp Counselor Explains Political Strategy Perfectly
- Civil Disobedience: One Lone Man and the Tanks of Tiananmen
- J.K. Rowling: Trump’s Freedom to Speak Protects My Right to Call Him a Bigot
- The surprising, radical message of Don Quixote
- These 1970s Court Cases Give Police Your Location Data With No Warrant
- How One Image Showed the World What Heroism Really Means
- The FBI Still Wants to Read Your Email
- You Keep Using the Word Capitalism…
- Atomic Atrocities, Absent Apologies
May 2016
- All I Wanted Was Some Skittles
- A Seemingly Harmless Policy Debate Could Mean the Difference Between Life and Death for Our Armed Forces
- Claim: The Supreme Court Has Let Billionaires Run America
- Desperate Students to College Administrators: Stop Being Paternalistic Babysitters
- How My Annual Halloween Parade Explains Donald Trump’s Success
- No, Your Friends are Probably Not Moving to Canada
- Officer Nero Is Acquitted in Freddie Gray Case, Americans Left with Unresolved Questions
- The Hidden Costs of Mandatory Maternity Leave
- Greener than Thou?
- Trump’s Plan to Deport 11 Million Immigrants Is Absolutely Terrifying, and This Is Why
- There's One Really Obvious Problem with Universal Basic Income
- The Tax Code Is Designed to Penalize Working Women
- 3 Myths About Immigrants You Probably Grew up Believing
- The Single Best Way to Honor Our Armed Forces Is to Stop Sending Them Into Harm's Way
- Debate Over Whether FISA Lets The Government Spy on Americans Set to Escalate
- Open Letter, Part 2: Minimum Wage Laws Are Immoral
- WhatsApp, Encryption, and Your Right to Privacy
- How the State Became the American Woman’s Real Enemy
- People Hate the Top One Percent. Here’s What’s Wrong With That
- IDK, Not Trump Tho: Donald Trump and Democracy
- Shouldn’t Big Businesses Just Be Nicer?
- Economics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
- Why You Can’t Just “Reject” Capitalism
- Government Launched the First Rocket, but Private Companies Made It Affordable
- Everyone Is Ignoring How Free Trade Really Impacts Income Inequality
- When I Look at My Donald Trump Tie Made in China, I Think About This Huge Economic Fallacy
- Legal and Cultural Approaches to Pluralism and Diversity
- "Dislike" Facebook's Suppression of Free Speech
- The Danger of Safe Spaces
- There’s One Perennial Complaint About Democracy. Here’s How to Solve It.
- Should I Go to Grad School?
- Learn More this Summer with Summer Seminars
- How Capitalism Made Modern Motherhood
- Child Labor is Terrible, But the Alternative is Worse
- Tis the Season of Disinvitation
- On Cinco de Mayo, Let’s Dispel 3 Common Myths About Our Relationship with Mexico
- Minecraft and Spontaneous Order
- Open Letter: Minimum Wage Laws Are Immoral
- Yes, We Can Get Richer by Doing One Another’s Laundry
- On Loyalty Day, Here’s What We Really Need to Be Remembering
- The Minimum Wage Experiment
April 2016
- Thought Experiments: When Small Decisions Mean So Much More
- What Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Means for Free Speech Today
- What J.K. Rowling Does And Doesn't Do for Native Americans
- This Year’s Passover Is an Especially Good Time to Celebrate Freedom from Slavery
- The Supreme Court Will Rule on Your Fourth Amendment Rights
- Supreme Court Questions Constitutionality of Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
- Summer Jobs and Internships: How to Succeed in Interviews
- Universities Insist on Genetic Diversity While Ignoring Diversity of Viewpoints
- How One Bridge Can Mean Three Different Things to a Pot Smoker
- Drug Laws Vary Across State Borders, and Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing
- The Game of Thrones Must Be Stopped
- Is Drawing a Penis Sexual Misconduct?
- What the Government Gets Wrong About Environmental Stewardship
- School Choice: How to Improve U.S. Public Education
- The Next “Panama Papers” Scandal May Involve You
- Quote of the Day: Lord Acton
- Are Low Interest Rates Good for the Economy?
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Protecting the Environment
- How White Privilege Could Explain Everything About Donald Trump's Success
- How the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Can Help Us Understand the 2015 Paris Terror Attacks
- 3 Persistent Myths About Capitalism That Need to Be Addressed
- Ethanol: Why is there corn in your car?
- What Causes Police Brutality?
- Freedom of Speech on Campus: "All Lives Matter" vs. "Black Lives Matter"
- Economist and Poet Debate Vocabulary
- Why freedom matters
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: What is "Libertarian?"
- When the Government Tries to Protect Your Freedom and Ruins Everything
- Quote of the Day: P.J. O'Rourke
- How Amazon Turns Trash Into Treasure
- Why We Don’t Live in a Game of Thrones
- New Gallup Survey: 73% of College Students Don’t Think Free Speech Is Being Threatened
- Election 2016 Is Here; Get Your Popcorn Ready
- The Logic of Mr. Krugman’s Mercantilism
- Panama Papers Raise Crony Questions
- California’s Massive Minimum Wage Hike to Benefit Rich Coastal Cities at Expense of Inland Regions
- Quote of the Day: Hayek on Knowledge
- Considering a Career in Ideas? We have a Fantastic Summer Opportunity for You!
- How the FCC Is Using Title II Regulations to Justify Its Existence
- The Rise of Digital Humanitarians
- How the Government Could Ruin Gaming
- 5 Misunderstandings Safe Space Advocates Have About Free Speech
- DCC Steps in to Correct Traumatic Effects of Learn Liberty’s Comments on Feminism
- How Entrepreneurship Provides a Helping Hand
- Efforts Redoubled to Stop Subversive Citizens Who Express Dissatisfaction with Government Health Care
- Learn Liberty to Become Safe Space
March 2016
- Tax Season is Here: Don’t forget your oyster-related tax breaks
- President Obama Visits Cuba, Promotes Freedom
- Taxation is Theft: A Case Study in Memes
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Sexonomics
- Quote of the Day: Lysander Spooner
- All McDonald's Hamburgers Taste the Same, But You'll Need a Crash Course in Economics to Know Why
- Tiny Sombreros and Even Smaller Free Expression Protections
- Social Justice Warriors Need Free Speech
- Frontier Mentality Necessary to Fix Health Care
- March Madness: Liberty Edition
- Free Speech and Censorship: No Swastikas for The Producers
- Has Obamacare Worked?
- The 2016 Election and the Folly of a Brilliant President
- Why Do All Politicians Sound The Same?
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Capitalism vs. Socialism
- 25 Percent of Obamacare Enrollees Dumped Their Plans in 2015
- How to Talk About Politics Without Sounding Like a Jerk
- Should You Hire a Private Bodyguard?
- Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
- Repealing the Law of Supply and Demand?
- This St. Patrick's Day Celebrate Ireland's Corporate Tax Rate
- Apply now for summer internships!
- Apple, the FBI, and the San Bernardino Phone Controversy: Explained
- What If Seeing a Doctor Was as Easy as Ordering an Uber?
- Quote of the Day: Ludwig von Mises on Public Schools
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Fantasy Football
- Will More Immigrants Make Americans Worse Off?
- If Immigration is so Bad, Why is New York City so Good?
- Myth of the Rational Voter 2016
- Credibility Gap on the Gender Gap
- Bernie Is Not A Socialist and America Is Not Capitalist
- Get involved on your campus!
- Quote of the Day: Robert Heinlein on Paternalism
- North Korea: What can the US do?
- On Demand Program: America’s Health Care System
- Should America Kill the $100 Bill?
- A Tax Even Libertarians Could Love?
- Discussion Question: Pharmaceutical Regulations
- Featured On Demand Program: House of Cards
- Micro-aggression and Macro-aggression
- The FDA and the Right to Try
- College, the way it should be: IHS Summer Seminars.
- Super Tuesday: 4 Traps American Voters Need to Avoid at All Costs
February 2016
- The Red Rising Trilogy, A Review
- Understanding the 2008 Financial Crisis and Beyond
- What Caused the Financial Crises: Bankers or the Government?
- If You Want to Change Society but Don’t Know How, Here’s a Helpful Resource
- We're Still Haunted By the Labor Theory of Value
- What Does It Mean To Learn Liberty?
- Discussion Question: Police Encounters
- Can We Really Learn From Hate Speech?
- Racial discrimination in the U.S. criminal justice system: did you know?
- Donald Trump, NASCAR Driver: Success in Business vs Economic Knowledge
- Graduating soon? Consider this paid D.C. fellowship opportunity.
- Lysander Spooner on the Social Contract
- Why Do All Politicians Sound the Same?
- How to Get Funding for Your PhD
- Your City Probably Doesn’t Need a Government-Financed Stadium or Convention Center
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Getting Politics Out of Education
- 8 Great Economics PhD Programs to Check Out
- Know Your (Bill of) Rights
- Discussion Question: On Intellectual Property
- 3 Things to Consider When Applying for Graduate Programs
- Jumpstart Your Career: Intern with the Reason Foundation
- Periscope Schedule for the Week
- Quote of the Day: Aristotle on the Tragedy of the Commons
- Voluntary Exchange Makes Us All Better Off
- Don’t Draft Women. Don’t Draft Anybody.
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Business Cycles Explained w/ Tyler Cowen
- 5 things to ask yourself before you go to graduate school
- The Danger of Safe Spaces
- The Size of the U.S. Debt, Redux
- Federal Judge Scores Pro-Marijuana Advocates a Free Speech Win at Iowa State
- 70 Years of Economics in One Lesson
- Celebrate Learn Liberty’s 5th Anniversary With the Top 5 Videos of All Time
- Are you an authoritarian?
- Become a leader on your campus and beyond!
- Periscope Schedule for the Week
- Quote of the Day
- What Are Rights?
- On Demand Program of the Week: The Price is Right
- Freedom for Sex Workers and MMA Fighters
- Vice City, Mardi Gras, and Government Regulation
- We Can Never Run Out of Anything
- The Wonder of Market-Set Prices
- Discussion Question: Liberty and Security
- Did you know that David Friedman is a fan of Recreational Medievalism?
- Can you be sued for your political newspaper ad?
- Ayn Rand Seminar at ISFLC
- Do You Want to Live in the World of Atlas Shrugged?
- Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson the Anarchist?
- What You Probably Haven't Heard About Citizens United
- Learn Liberty on Periscope This Week
- Tax Shield: The Tax man and the Aspiring Minimalist
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Citizens Divided
- Censors Getting High on Their Own Authority
January 2016
- Discussion Question: Externalities
- Did you know that Adam Smith coined the term the “Invisible Hand”?
- National School Choice Week
- Part-time Position for Pros at Prose
- The Gun Control Debate, Explained With Dogs
- Quote of the Day: The Wisdom of Mises
- How to Fix Our Fiscal Crisis
- What's Happening This Week on Periscope?
- The First Rule of Wing-Walking
- The Criminal Justice System is Turning Martin Luther King’s Dream Into a Nightmare
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: America's Health Care System
- Historical Inspirations Behind Star Wars
- What would Martin Luther King, Jr. think of today’s limits on free speech?
- Liberty Against Privilege: The Life and Thought of Lysander Spooner
- What happens when you legalize drugs?
- Compulsory Union Dues Before the Supreme Court
- Join us at the International Students For Liberty Conference!
- What’s Not Being Said About the Wage Gap
- Quote of the Day: David Friedman on the Infantile State
- Can Bitcoin Help Alleviate Poverty?
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Bitcoin
- New Smoking Ban is Anti-Liberty
- Discussion Question: Gun Control
- Trade-Offs, Not Solutions
- Three Reasons Why a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea
- Roman Phalluses Sink Professor
- Trivia: What does it mean to plead the Fifth?
- How to Make A Learn Liberty Video
- Why We Don’t Invade Canada
- Love social media AND liberty? AEI is hiring.
- This Week on Learn Liberty's Periscope
- Quote of the Day: Albert Camus
- Should We End the Fed?
- Marijuana Legalization in the United States: What Can We Expect?
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Thought Experiments in Liberty
- Police Brutality: What Is Happening To Our Communities?
- Did you know that New York City taxi medallions can cost over $1 million?
- Discussion Question: Pharmaceutical Regulation
- Campus Speech Repression is Nothing New
- Cops, Drugs, and Cops with Drugs
- Liberty and the American West, on campus in Texas!
- Biases and Americans’ support for bombing the city from Aladdin
- Quote of the Day
- Have Wages Stagnated?
- Learn Liberty on Periscope in the Week Ahead
- Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Financial Crises and Government
- Will You Vote Well?
- Discussion Question: Policing in America
- Freedom Makes Bigots Pay