[Originally published in the Free Market, Volume 8, Number 8, August 1990] The Soviet Union was the first country to introduce a fully nationalized health care system. To the cheers of Western “progressives,” Lenin signed a decree in 1919 stating that
[Originally Published September 16th, 2011, on www.williamgairdner.com] Politicians know there is a vast pool of latent citizen-envy lurking in the bosom of every nation, and that it is easily aroused with bogus equality–talk. Just so, an unreflective Canadian public has swallowed
[Excerpts selected by Ross Harrison. Read his review of North's book, Marx's Religion of Revolution, here.] The cosmology of chaos Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself
[Originally posted at The Daily Reckoning, Sunday, December 18th, 2011] The latest data show that book sales are way up this season. So much for the prediction that books will be killed by technology. On the contrary, technology has enabled
[For readers who want to go beyond a mere review, a full copy of Marx’s Religion of Revolution is available at http://www.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/a_pdfs/gnmr.pdf] From its very inception, in the highly scientistic[i] nineteenth century, Marxist Communism has presented itself as perhaps the
We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, not the corporate economy. And what would freed markets look like? Nothing like the controlled markets we have today. But how often do we hear mass unemployment, financial crisis,
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In the realm of financial calamities, never doubt the extent of man’s adaptability to changing circumstances. In a recent Forbes column, the great free market advocate Bill Frezza makes mention of a new trend popping up in the economic sideshow
Wasn’t this the fastest recovery ever? Maybe it’s because there wasn’t any in the first place. Only those fooled by stimulus and massaged government data drank the koolaid. Welcome to the Great Correction and the inflation/deflation debate. The Great Correction
The Fed’s latest inflationary scheme sounds like a technocratic innovation. It lowered the costs of currency swaps between central banks of the world, with the idea that the Fed would do for the globe what Europe, England and China are
[Originally appeared in Left and Right, Spring 1965, pp. 4-22.] The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence
In case you’ve been living under a rock recently, you would have noticed that another major announcement from the world’s monetary authorities was released a couple days ago.[ref]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-30/fed-five-central-banks-lower-interest-rate-on-dollar-swaps.html[/ref]Â Markets everywhere rallied as investors gleefully piled in to just about every
Who poses the greater threat to freedom?  Colonel Gaddafi? The Taliban? Or let’s look closer to home, at a sinister group with far, far greater influence on the future of Western civilization. The Green zealots, with their bicycles and wispy
[Originally Published on Le Québécois Libre, November 15, 2011, No 294.] “War Is the Health of the State.” The title of American radical Randolph Bourne’s manuscript referred to the expansion of government power during World War I, but it applies
While the “Progressive Era” used to be narrowly designated as the period 1900–1914, historians now realize that the period is really much broader, stretching from the latter decades of the nineteenth century into the early 1920s. The broader period marks an
Quebec Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette wants to force corporations, parent Crown corporations and some financial institutions to have their boards of directors include at least 40 per cent women. She is reintroducing a private member’s bill into the Senate to remedy what
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