Politics

The upcoming Department of Government Efficiency project has gotten plenty of criticism and skepticism from libertarians and small-government advocates. But there is a component of DOGE that many free-marketers are too quick to dismiss or take for granted—the cultural component.

The great free-market classical liberal William Leggett believed that Americans do not need politicians telling us on which days Americans ought to be thankful.

The latest boogeyman conjured up by the Biden administration is ghost guns.

It is unlikely many of the Department of Government Efficiency’s recommendations will ever be implemented. The value of the DOGE lies in how it exposes government waste.

The term “entrepreneurial state” is an oxymoron. As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial in the end misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results.

At the recent International Union for Conservation of Nature event in Belgium there were very few (or no) economists, sociologists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and nature-oriented landowners.

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One of the oldest and most harmful economic fallacies is the belief that, at best, economic exchange is a zero-sum activity. However, free exchange in an unhampered market is always positive.

So-called economic moderates claim to support free-market capitalism, but then say that markets still need “some” government oversight. Free markets, however, don’t need government-based rules because markets effectively regulate themselves.

As with any other government-controlled institution, a high level of public skepticism about elections is healthy.