Capitalism and Human Nature
My colleague Will Wilkinson has a very fine essay on evolutionary psychology and its implications for political and economic life in Cato Policy Report. It’s available on PDF and HTML….
Political Theory
Seminar Planning
Now’s the time to start planning on those extra educational opportunities. You can learn about the history, the insights, and the promise of classical liberalism this year at three long-weekend…
Boaz and Gillespie on McLaughlin Show
My friends David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, and Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, were recently interviewed about libertarianism by John McLaughlin on his show One…
The Persistence of Slavery
There are still a few corners of the world where chattel slavery still exists. Niger is one of them, where it has proven quite difficult to extirpate that ancient evil….
Liberalism and the Relationship Between Prosperity, Peace, and the Love of Mankind
I got back from a very fun IHS conference at Duke University, at which I had the pleasure of explaining the benefits of global trade to an audience of very…
Enough to Make Me Re-Consider the Death Penalty
It’s cases like this that test one’s general opposition to imposition of the death penalty. What horrors lurk in the hearts of humans. Addendum: The statistical insight that the even…
A Thought-Provoking Proposal
The uproar over the crass display of the crooked cross by British prince Harry has provoked calls for banning display of the symbol entirely. (It’s already banned in some countries.)…
Globalization and Rights
I’m off tomorrow to Duke for the Free Your Mind conference, at which I’ll be speaking on globalization and on the nature of rights and their relationship to law and…
Anne Applebaum on Memory
The outsanding Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and truly excellent book Gulag: A History, has hit another home run with today’s column on the…
Ayn Rand Would Be 100 Years Old
I’ll be at the Ayn Rand Centenary tomorrow February 2) at the Library of Congress. The Cato Institute has a tribute to Rand’s remarkable influence on the world by my…