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" W ealth inequality isn't proof that you're being robbed. It assumes successful people are partially your property and that th...

  " I n 1820, 94 out of every 100 people lived in extreme poverty. Forty-three children out of every 100 died before the age of five. E...

" A rtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our lifetimes — and a graveyard for the companies built to own ...

  " A merica’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men wh...

A fellow is making a show about buildings. A fellow called David Perell , with presenter Sheehan Quirke . Their concept is simple: do for t...

"[ C ]ommerce first taught nations to see with goodwill the wealth and prosperity of one another. Before, the patriot, unless sufficien...

" N ew Zealand has just been ranked one of the happiest countries in the world. This is obviously good news. But there is something bad...

E VER SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL  REVOLUTION in the nineteenth century and ever-increasing global freedom in this one, human progress has been on ...

" T here are moments in history when a civilisation must choose its future. "We have been told that the State is our protector; th...

  " W hile the share of people in extreme poverty has been falling since the 19th century, the total number didn’t begin to decline [at...

" I n much of twentieth-century moral philosophy, ethics was rebuilt ... [Once p]hilosophers ... abandoned the idea that things have na...

 The start of a year is a good time to do a stocktake. An update. A check-in on how well we're all getting on. Energy maven Alex Epstein...

"Salmond claims to have been guided by a list that reads like a Who's Who in  Postmodernity...  What she does not discuss is whethe...

" T he most secure and prosperous societies did not hide from the world. They were confident enough to remain open to trade and ideas, ...

Thanksgiving isn't a New Zealand holiday, but giving thanks should be a universal trait. Robert Green Ingersoll was the nineteenth-centu...

I f you're complaining about the price of butter, here's a data point to keep in mind as you butter your croissant: "All dairy ...

"' R eal Socialism' has never been tried in the same way that 'Real Capitalism' has never been tried. "The differe...

“ T he weaker the government, the better it is for innovation.” ~ Joel Mokyr "Today, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel ...

 N orman Borlaug says "no." "Thanks to improved farming techniques, fertiliser, irrigation, genetic modification, and innovat...

"C all it 'greed' if you want. But greed built the light bulb, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the vaccine. Envy never built ...