Summary Fifty two years ago, Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph on, “The Confusions of Language in Political Thought.” He …
The Essential Austrian Economics
The Austrian school was founded in 1871 by Carl Menger, a journalist and economist, with his book Principles of Economics.
Self-Censorship and Despotism Over the Mind
Summary These are strange and divisive political and social times, only matched in my lifetime, it seems to me, by …
On Cancel Culture
Summary “Cancel Culture” is the new fashionable phrase for overturning and obliterating the existence and memory of the American idea …
Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society
Summary At time of political and economic crises, including during a viral pandemic, it is worth recalling the notable voices …
Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race Relations Around the World
Summary Race relations in America have reached renewed heightened awareness over the last month. It seems appropriate to turn for …
John Stuart Mill on Slavery and the American Civil War
Summary: The issue of slavery as part of the American political and economic system has become a new and heated …
Remembering Deepak Lal
by Ian Vásquez at CATO AT LIBERTY The great development economist Deepak Lal, a colleague and long‐time friend to many of …
Independent Institute’s List of Books on the Folly of Socialism
What everyone should know about the practical and moral failures of the socialist project (Oakland, CA)—A list of about forty …