By John McKenzie and Richard B. McKenzie
California (and much of the West) is in the midst of its worst multi-decade drought in maybe a millennium. Los Angeles has received only a fifth of its normal near-desert-level rainfall this year. Indeed, LA's rainfall to date in 2022 is just under the normal precipitat...
By Rosolino Candela
A Liberty Classic Book Review of Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, by Ludwig von Mises.1 The hallmark of a great book is its ability to stand the test of time, for its lessons to apply across place and time, and for its underlying principl...
By Stephen Davies
A Book Review of Hitler: The Politics of Seduction, by Rainer Zitelmann.1 One could truly say that there is no end to books about Adolph Hitler. Every year brings new works to add to the library already in print. This despite there being what most regard as a def...
By Arnold Kling
A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart co...
By Richard Gunderman
Twice per year a group of medical students and I put on a "Mini Medical School" for high school students in our city's public school system. About 50 students, nearly all from disadvantaged backgrounds, gather for a day at our medical school, attending a special class a...
By Caleb Fuller
A Liberty Classic Book Review of Economic Sophisms, by Frédéric Bastiat.1 "The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." —Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845). ...
By Thomas Hogan
A Book Review of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, by Christopher Leonard.1 Many great movies are "based on a true story"—meaning some parts are true, but the details, even entire plotlines, are embellished wit...
By Arnold Kling
Perhaps the oddest thing of our soon-to-be present is that while the Americans revel in their petty, internal squabbles, they will barely notice that elsewhere !!! Lights will flicker and go dark. Famine's leathery claws will dig deep and hold tight. Access to the i...
By Rosolino Candela
A Liberty Classic Book Review of Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice, by Israel M. Kirzner.1 Can the distribution of income generated by the market process be regarded as just? The answer to that question depends on the extent to which economi...
By Donald J. Boudreaux
A Book Review of Time For Socialism, by Thomas Piketty.1 Time For Socialism author Thomas Piketty boasts a doctorate in economics, publishes papers regularly in top economics journals, teaches economics at the Paris School of Economics, and was once on the econom...
By Arnold Kling
When it comes to talent, we will try to teach you how to think past the bureaucracy. We focus on a very specific kind of talent in this book—namely, talent with a creative spark—and that is where the bureaucratic approach is most deadly. In referring to t...
By Pierre Desrochers
Review of The Progressive Environmental Prometheans: Left-wing Heralds of a "Good Anthropocene." by William B. Meyer1 Coming out of left field for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020, the Michael Moore-backed documentary Planet of the Humans (hencef...
By Rosolino Candela
What relationship, if any, exists between the right to private property and social justice? The concept of social justice has been, and continues to be, an elusive one, particularly because this concept has been broadened to encompass a wide variety of issues, inclu...
By Adam Martin
A Liberty Classic Book Review of The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics, edited by Edwin Dolan.1 What's so Austrian about "Austrian economics?" The label was originally a pejorative, coined by Gustav Schmoller, a harsh critic of Carl Menger's work. ...
By Jeremy Horpedahl
A Book Review of Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages, by Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod.1 Introduction What do you think would happen if suddenly beards and bachelorhood were taxed? Ridiculous, you say? Not so! In the later 17...
By Arnold Kling
"But for some reason, the Dutch started to reject that traditional view of society in the sixteenth century. They entertained the idea that it was perfectly fine to trade and make profits. That new, liberal way of looking at life resulted in a rising standard of liv...
