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Echoing Bill Clinton’s declaration in his 1996 State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over,” Ross Douthat now sees conservatives justifying government interventions because they…
“Capitalism cannot provide meaning, spirituality, or sense of belonging. Those things are upstream of capitalism,” Jonah Goldberg writes in his new, optimistic book, Suicide of the West. Mitch has commented…
Some great conversations made my time in the car much better this week Steven Teles is one of the most insightful people writing about conservatism and government, from the Federalist…
John Cogan explains how federal entitlements have always grown in his new book, The High Cost of Good Intentions. He told stories of veterans’ benefits, FDR’s early opposition to entitlements, the…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has one of the best podcasts around, Masters of Scale. He recently interviewed Peter Thiel (transcript) about their shared experiences at PayPal and how an organization…
Should private philanthropy seek to replace government-provided social services? I have argued in this space that it should, and have sought in my outside activity to make this possible. Others, however,…
Russ Roberts is one of the most thoughtful and articulate economists around, whether in rap videos, animated poems, novels, or his weekly EconTalk podcast. A recent conversation he had with Martha…
Russ Roberts offers an excellent antidote for those who believe that government ensures we get what we need in our lives. [W]ho makes sure there’s so much bread? You want…
Hoover Institution economist Russ Roberts devoted his Duke University Hayek Lecture Monday to comparing Adam Smith’s and Friedrich Hayek’s views on the role of markets in helping us live in…
In his latest “Economic Beat” column for Barron’s, Gene Epstein questions howls of protest from left-of-center pundits and prognosticators over modest proposed cuts to a bloated federal government. In today’s…
Russ Roberts posted this on Cafe Hayek. Andrew Breitbart has passed away. I didn’t know him. I never met him. I know little about him. I know he had something…
Today’s Freeman column by Sheldon Richman is about the way Keynesian economists are “dissing” Hayek, evidently out of fear that his way of thinking of about economics — which rejects…