The Unbroken Window

What government insurance program has experienced the fastest enrollment increase since 1990?

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It is criminal and immoral to celebrate, on this day, the social and economic achievements of the Labor Movement. How can one be proud of the fact that those societies that pursued equality were forced to create a new class of individuals to “enforce it” leading to mass murder on a scale that has never […]

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Much has been made recently of economic findings that seem to refute the Easterlin Paradox. The paradox is simple - in research done in the 1970s, there was no apparent connection between wealth and happiness (in cross-country or within country average data). Critics of “greed-seeking”, “soulless” capitalism have used this for decades to push for […]

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What was the last innovation you can remember being implemented on a town/county road or an interstate highway?

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Time selects Putin as Person of the Year for “extraordinary leadership” and “bringing stability.” You can’t make this stuff up. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT, a headline from the Onion.

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Today I give thanks that I do not live in a country which has a monument on this list.

At least not yet.
 

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If, in a small community, ten people band together to rob and expropriate three others then this is clearly and evidently a case of a group of individuals acting in concert against another group. In this situation, if the ten people presumed to refer to themselves as “society” acting in “its” interest, the rationale would […]

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There is a reason this has been relegated to pop-culture status.
 If that is not enough to appreciate just how far our living standards have advanced, much less the devastation that socialism lays on societies, try living like people did in 1883 Montana. Many of us romanticize the simplicity of that kind of a life from the […]

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Was dedicated today in Washington, DC. Tens of millions were allowed to suffer and die in the name of equality and the elimination of class warfare.
Sadly, the rhetoric of many in America today forget this sordid history. Hayek always believed that Socialism crept up on people … it would be hard to identify precisely when […]

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Have your day. Then think about this:
Welcome to Catallarchy’s annual Day of Remembrance. Contrary to the promises of ideology, nations whose governments pledged to create a workers’ paradise usually became places of rampant slave labor. The plight of the less fortunate became even less fortunate. Today, we chronicle a small part of their lives.
How Many […]

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