While politicians and bureaucrats always claim to work in the "public interest," the rewards they gain for making bad economic decisions are more important to them than any satisfaction they get from supposedly "serving the people."

In today’s edition of Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini. The author deals with conservatives that believe that free markets threaten the virtue of our society.

Free markets in agriculture undermined communist governments' attempts to collectivize farming. You can strike a blow against state control by simply gardening.

Like so many other places where politicians promise something for nothing, Argentina has imposed rent controls in the name of “affordable housing.” President Milei is doing what he can to repeal these policies.

For more than a century, elite progressives have imposed draconian measures to curb population growth, which they said would destroy the earth. The population has grown, but the earth seems to be doing quite well, thank you.

Spanish economist Juan Ramón Rallo has responded to Jesús Huerta de Soto's comments on Javier Milei's efforts to introduce a 100% reserve banking system. I would like to briefly comment on Rallo's video.

While Ludwig von Mises wrote in favor of democracy, his support for it was utilitarian at best, and he certainly did not have a near-religious affinity for it. Mises saw democracy as a means to peacefully transfer political power, period.