The Dangers of the Era
Modern civilisation has its problems but right now it works. Electrical grids, water systems, mass agriculture, global shipping, the internet, road networks, governments and financial markets are all...
View ArticleWho’s the Communist Now?
I’d like to draw readers’ attention to a statistic I flagged up a few weeks ago that I don’t think I emphasised sufficiently. I was writing about America’s current tax burden, its deficit, and the...
View ArticleLao Tzu on Liberty
Regular reader Alister Cyril Blanc reminds me of Roderick Long’s Austro-Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism, an interesting essay that attempts to find the roots of the modern schools of...
View ArticleIs Marxism Coming Back?
It is true that as the financial and economic crises roll on, as more and more disasters accumulate, as more people are thrown into unemployment and suffering that more and more of us will question the...
View ArticleWhy are Democrats souring on big government?
According to a new Gallup poll, 72 percent of Americans say that big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than big business or big labor, a record high in the half century that...
View ArticleIs China’s economy headed for a crash?
In his assessment of the global economy’s performance 2013, legendary financier George Soros warned of dangers in the Chinese economy: The major uncertainty facing the world today is not the euro but...
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