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Lecture by Art Carden: Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Made the Modern World.

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 Location: The University of The Bahamas. Sir Franklyn Wilson Centre at 6:30pm. The Nassau Institute & Templeton Religion Trust, in Collaboration with the Banking Economics & Finance Department & The Economics Society of The University of The Bahamas Presenter Art Carden Speaking on: Leave Me... Read more →

For a New Liberalism

"In his lead essay, Gerald Gaus argues that today’s political philosophy is a confused jumble of opposing factions with little prospect of consensus. He then proposes a way out of this “crisis of credibility”: We should recognize that there may be a range of institutions, each of which suffices to... Read more →

The Minnis Doctrine

In 1947, America on the was cusp of conflict with the Soviet Union, as the latter side pushed for control of the Mediterranean and the prior attempted to contain as much as possible. This policy of containment was largely derived from President Harry Truman’s 1947 speech to Congress, commonly known... Read more →

Why Not Capitalism by Jason Brennan

"We're not the Borg from Star Trek. We want to engage in private projects we do by ourselves and not with others," says Jason Brennan, an associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. "Brennan's new book, Why Not Capitalism?, casts a critical eye on a notion with wide appeal among... Read more →

Messrs Symonette and McAlpine

Dear Mr. Editor, Please allow me space to take issue with certain comments by the REV. Frederick McAlpine, MP. If McAlpine was my Member of Parliament I would be doing everything possible to have him unseated. It would appear his “word” is of far more importance than the needs of... Read more →

But it's in the "National Interest"

I must admit to a feeling of great frustration when I hear the political class suggest some public policy is in the national interest because it it simply a distortion. Pierre Lemieux sums it up quote well in his article The Tyranny of the National Interest. Here's a quote: "The... Read more →

We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent

James Bovard, the author of ten books, including 2012’s Public Policy Hooligan, and 2006’s Attention Deficit Democracy and has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, and many other publications has a new op/ed at Mises.org tilted We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent.... Read more →

NHI Bahamas PR is launched

Out of the box the Government just could not tell the truth. Government services are paid for with taxes but NHI is not a tax. Go figure! Then on top of that some employers are exempt. Out of the starting gate Government plays it's deceit cards. I guess we should... Read more →

Are we what we think?

Last week I had a meeting in Mexico with GM. It was my third visit so I thought it was time to see a couple of the Mayan ruins. We stayed at Paradisus, a Melia Resort in Playa del Carmen. While the beach is nice, it can't compare to ours... Read more →

Their ideology is envy and their policy is theft

In comfortable, middle-class West London I am surrounded by the smug. The local websites recently erupted in prissy anger, for example, at the notion that the site of a local scrap yard (I am surprised we still have one) is to be redeveloped as apartments. "It's not green" or "it... Read more →