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Walter Defends Sarajevo: A Story of Propaganda in Cinema

.Millions of people learned who liberated Yugoslavia from a movie. In Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), the liberator is portrayed as a partisan — a communist. But the real man behind the legend, Žarko Todorović, wasn't a communist partisan.

In Defense of Billionaires: Value, Virtue, and the Zero-Sum Fallacy

Most people hate billionaires. But Nobel laureate William Nordhaus found innovators capture just 2.2% of the value they create. The other 97.8% flows to consumers through lower prices … to workers through wages … and to suppliers through commerce.

Chasing the American Dream – or Destroying It?

Homeownership helped build the American Dream, but easy credit is undoing it. A new executive order promises

Capitalism Needs Failure. Not Necessarily Yours.

Ever wonder why some businesses fail even in the perfect location? A small Greek restaurant sat two blocks from Boston Garden, surviving almost entirely on lunch orders from one nearby office. When that company moved away,

From India to Rome to America: Liberty’s story around the world

1776 was just one chapter in a 4,000-year story. Even before Rome's Senate, ancient Indian gana-saṅghas ran assembly-based republics that shaped the Buddha's own monastic order

CBDCs, Keynes, and the Beginning of the End

Blue socialism. Red socialism. Same control, different color, and CBDCs are where they finally agree.

Chat Control Comes in Two Versions. Neither Respects Your Privacy

We thought we had killed Chat Control. Germany opposed it, Parliament rejected it, talks collapsed, yet headlines now say it just passed the EU Parliament. Confusing?

From Philadelphia to Delhi: How 1776 Contributed to the World’s Largest Liberal Democracy

In 1776, Jefferson said governments draw their power from "the consent of the governed." By 1930, that same idea echoed through India's own Declaration of Independence, but Gandhi and Ambedkar didn't stop at borrowing it.

Happy Birthday, America: A Libertarian Reading of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution

What if the government doesn’t give you rights? What if it exists to protect the rights you already have?

Don’t Ban Prediction Markets

Politicians want to ban prediction markets, but the real question is: Why are they afraid of accurate forecasts?