History

  • The Age of Decline

    “We enter the Age of Decline and find ourselves victims of our own success. History tells us that impoverished societies die by war and famine. Now we are learning that prosperous societies die by attrition.” ~ Antony Davies

    The Age of Decline
  • 1619 Project: A Flawed Interpretation With a Hidden Agenda (Video)

    “In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand and AIER Research and Education Director Phillip W. Magness highlight the historical flaws of the 1619 project, and explore why it excludes abolitionists like Frederick Douglass.” ~ AIER

    1619 Project: A Flawed Interpretation With a Hidden Agenda (Video)
  • The 1519 Project: An Antidote to Caricature?

    “To suggest that the experience of slavery is a uniquely Black, or uniquely North American phenomenon does a great injustice to the Blacks and other North Americans who came before 1619.” ~ Paul Schwennesen

    The 1519 Project: An Antidote to Caricature?
  • Garet Garrett, the Great

    “We could easily consider his first name an anagram for what his stance against the New Deal was, g-r-e-a-t, while also recognizing that some of his views resemble a dusty old attic.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Garet Garrett, the Great
  • But Who Will Build the Roads: A Parable

    “Maybe, others one day will join the call once they hear how much cash could be recouped and costs and delays avoided by returning to the path once heavily traveled, the one where travelers, not Leviathan, decide how best to travel hither and thither.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    But Who Will Build the Roads: A Parable
  • Obstacles to Freedom Can Be the Way to Freedom

    “If we set our purpose to learn from obstacles, today, there is no better opportunity to choose freedom over violence. Thankfully, Read, Aurelius, and Emerson point the way; the more significant the obstacles, the greater the potential change.” ~ Barry Brownstein

    Obstacles to Freedom Can Be the Way to Freedom
  • On the Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard

    “Production is a means; consumption is the end. The consumer-welfare standard is nothing more, nor less, than an understanding and acceptance of this fundamental economic reality.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

    On the Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard
  • The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Control

    “The ‘chilling effect’ of government censorship by corporate proxy has Americans on an icy slope that bottoms out in the sort of political slavery feared by the Founders and Framers.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Control
  • After the Speakership Fight: What Now in the House?

    “Even if spending cuts don’t go beyond the House, the Republicans will at least be linking themselves to something more than the lurid distortions of Trumpism that spook centrist voters.” ~ David B. Frisk

    After the Speakership Fight: What Now in the House?
  • An Omni-Wreck Waiting to Happen

    “It’s time for us to acknowledge the society they are creating and to hold them accountable. If our current legislators won’t apply the brakes on this train, we need to do so in the next election.” ~ Caroline Breashears

    An Omni-Wreck Waiting to Happen
  • The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom

    “Too many of the former and present members of the Court think of themselves as the nation’s conscience, but they have a great number of sins, both of commission and omission, to atone for” ~ George Leef

    The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom
  • How Individuals Enable Tyranny

    “Mill, Havel, and Kundera all point us to a terrible truth: our moral weakness, desire to evade responsibility, and illusion that the majority makes right have led us down the slippery slope of forfeiting our freedom.” ~ Barry Brownstein

    How Individuals Enable Tyranny