A collection of 99 posts
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Young women are now outearning young men; this structural shift has consequences that extend well beyond wages.
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Escalating house prices and density rules trap young people in renting, eroding homeownership—a key to democracy.
Why prosperity breeds guilt, how status incentives reward critique, and what happens when function is replaced by moral performance.
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
Trump’s assault on the Federal Reserve demands a structural solution: rules-based monetary policy that protects central bank independence whilst delivering better economic results.
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?