Tag: free markets

  • Are We Already Fucking It Up?

    Are We Already Fucking It Up?Life is expensive, and seemingly getting more expensive.Very few people seem to be debating that. What there does seem to be a growing debate over what government should do about it.Three of life’s biggest expenses are housing, education, and healthcare. These are three expenses Americans seem incapable of discussing without…

  • A Tale Of Two Solutions.

    How many of our political disagreements persist because we’re arguing past each other? We criticize the other side’s conclusions because they don’t solve the problem as we understand it, without first asking whether they’re trying to solve a different problem altogether. When the left argues for a living wage, many on the right respond that…

  • Security First, Freedom Later — The Ancient Shell Game

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    Everyone claims to value freedom. Ask a hundred people whether they would rather live free or not, and all hundred will say yes. But history and human behavior tell a more complicated story. When faced with uncertainty, instability, or danger, people consistently choose security over liberty.This choice is not foolish — it is practical. Human…

  • Argentina’s Libertarian Experiment: A Real-World Trial

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    Commentators predicted mass suffering.Headlines promised chaos. As Javier Milei rose to power, I started observing something rare: my political ideology undergoing a real-world trial, not in a think tank or a debate hall, but in a country already brought to its knees by decades of bad policy. To the uninitiated, what followed seemed unexpected. After…