Technological Advances Offer Optimism For The Future
One of the many joys of working on the Human Progress project is to observe the steady stream of medical, scientific and technological breakthroughs that promise to improve human lives. In the last...
View ArticleFree Markets Make the World a Better Place
Last Friday, the Cato Institute hosted a forum on a new book, Neil Monnery's Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong. Sir John Cowperthwaite was the financial...
View ArticleU.S. Withdrawal From UNESCO Is a Good Start
The Trump administration announced earlier this month that the United States will be leaving the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the end of 2018. The...
View ArticleCorporations Are Not As Powerful As You Think
Concern over the power of large corporations is back in vogue. From Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) on the left to Fox News' Tucker Carlson on the right, politicians and opinion makers worry about the...
View ArticleThe Never Ending Battle of Ideas Between Capitalism and Socialism
Today marks 100 years since the Bolshevik coup d'état in Russia overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky and replaced it with a communist dictatorship that lasted until the...
View ArticleTrump Trade Speech Undermines Beleaguered Free Trade Consensus
President Trump raised some valid concerns about America's trade relations with the rest of the world in a speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vietnam on Friday. For example,...
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