Popular support for capitalism can’t be taken for granted
Ultimately, the fight for free markets comes down to emotion not economics, the heart not the wallet.
Edited by Peter Franklin
How and why should we tax land?
If an obviously flawed proposal like the mansion tax can get a hearing, one has to ask why there is so little political interest in Land Value Taxation
Heresy of the week: A partial defence of Russell Brand
While Brand’s vision of a Big Society for anti-capitalists might not sound like a whole lot of fun, it does represent a challenge to the mechanistic, top-down statism of the conventional left
Artificial intelligence isn’t actually intelligent, but it will change the world anyway
AI isn’t about creating a mind on a microchip, but increasing the sophistication of the impersonal computers we’ve already got.
The decline of the American middle class shows why we need a new measure of national prosperity
America is still the richest of the big economies, but for ordinary Americans on stagnant wages that’s not much comfort
Conservatives have more to gain than lose from an evidence-based approach to education
Instead of simply dismissing the findings that contradict our worldview, we should seek deeper explanations.
Labour falls to Earth, but the Conservatives can’t get off the ground
The Conservatives have ‘closed the gap’ with Labour, but only in the sense that the sea closed the gap with Icarus.
Heresy of the week: If concern about climate change is a religion, then Margaret Thatcher was its founder
Perhaps the reason why environmentalism gets stuck with the religion label is because the issues involved are so vast in scope
Western liberal societies only have a future if they can be bothered to reproduce
We can’t close our eyes to the implications of historically low birthrates.
If the left cares about inequality then why doesn’t it care about family breakdown?
Family structure makes a big difference to financial outcomes and, therefore, inequality
The rightwing campaign against low interest rates needs a stronger message
The free market right could and should be leading the charge against the subversion of the capitalist system.
Progressive London isn’t quite as capital as it’s cracked-up to be
Behind the facade of tolerance, London isn’t nearly so integrated as we might think it is
Heresy of the week: Is the internet really a force for decentralisation and democracy?
Advocates of net neutrality insist that without regulatory guarantees the internet could be stitched-up by the biggest players
Owen Paterson, ‘ecosystem services’ and the flying rivers of Brazil
Even though some natural resources can’t be owned, they still have an economic value that shouldn’t be taken for granted
Libya’s civil war demonstrates the futility of western intervention
More bloody chaos in the wake of ‘liberation’
