In this article on the Mises Institute site, Pepperdine University economics professor Gary Galles examines the advantage that utopianism has over freedom — when it comes to rhetoric. Utopians can promise a better world through nostrums that inevitably employ the coercion of the state and those promises appeal to people who are unable to think through the long-run consequences. Freedom actually does deliver long-run improvements for mankind, but it seems less inspiring because it can’t promise immediate uplift for all.