Failure to reform the national health system has led the government to collapse in one of the most statist governments following the Nordic model. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä of Finland and his cabinet members have resigned after failing to rein in the nation’s …
Huckleberry Finn’s moral conscience
Few authors could spin words as well as Mark Twain, but the image of the chronicler of the Mississippi is perhaps more one of style and storytelling than of depth. We don’t read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn and expect …
PowerLinks 03.15.19
The woke corporation: how campus madness entered the workplace Toby Young, The Spectator Governments have always been vulnerable to forms of political craziness. What’s new is the behaviour of big business. Continue Reading… Related posts: PowerLinks 01.23.15 PowerLinks 04.02.18 PowerLinks …
Explainer: What you should know about the national debt
What just happened? Last month the U.S. Treasury Department reported that for the first time, the national debt has exceeded $22 trillion. What is the national debt? The national debt of the U.S. Continue Reading… Related posts: Explainer: What you …
Samuel Gregg on Venezuela’s agony, the Catholic Church, and a post-Maduro future
Although many are dissatisfied with the Vatican’s efforts to mediate Venezuela’s political crisis, says Acton Institute research director Samuel Gregg, Venezuela’s Catholic Church is the one institution that has retained its integrity throughout two decades of a leftist-populist tyranny. Continue …
Acton Line: Denmark isn’t socialist; Who is William Penn?
On this episode of Acton Line, Caroline Roberts speaks with Acton’s senior editor, Rev. Ben Johnson, about a new study released by a free market think tank in Denmark, claiming that Denmark isn’t actually socialist. Continue Reading… Related posts: No, …
PowerLinks 03.14.19
Why “Free College” Will Do Little to Help Poorer Americans Richard Vedder, FEE A large portion of the beneficiaries of free college will be relatively affluent middle-class individuals. First Study on School Choice and Crime Reduction Holds Good News for …
Pete Buttigieg: the Bernie Sanders fan running for president
Pete Buttigieg (pronounced BOOT-edge-edge), mayor of South Bend, Indiana is running for president. His candidacy is a long-shot compared to democratic front-runners like former vice president Joe Biden or senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Continue Reading… Related posts: What Kind of …
Faith and liberty in Guatemala
To say that the history of Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is marked by sadness and disappointment is hardly a novel insight. Whether it’s the persistence of cronyism throughout the region, the constant presence of Marxist ideology …
Game of Theories: The Monetarists
Note: This is post #114 in a weekly video series on basic economics. A monetarist is an economist who holds the strong belief that the economy’s performance is determined almost entirely by changes in the money supply. Continue Reading… Related …
Free marketers can learn from Keynes, says Samuel Gregg
John Maynard Keynes, 20th century British economist, is best known for his book, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936), but it was his pointed analysis of the Treaty of Versailles, “Economic Consequences of the Peace,” which first …
Elites, markets and cronyism
It’s no great secret that France is facing social upheaval and has some longstanding deep-set economic problems. Nor is it revealing to say that France’s political class is despised across the spectrum as woefully out of touch. Continue Reading… Related …
