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Unanimous Supreme Court Says Internet Service Provider Not Liable for Internet Users' Illegal Downloads

Plus: What George Orwell thought about Friedrich Hayek.

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Politicians Want To Fix the Economy. So Why Do They Keep Making It Worse?

"Central planning doesn't work because everybody has different ideas for themselves," says Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute.

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Republican Socialism: Trump Is Taking Federal Stakes in Private Companies

The Trump administration's pivot toward socialism did not come without warning.

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To the Socialists of All Parties

Friedrich Hayek's most popular work was dedicated to "the socialists of all parties." That phrase perfectly captures politics in 2025.

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Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump Prove That There Are Two Paths Toward Socialism

As fans of horseshoe theory point out, the political extremes might differ on details, but they have a lot in common.

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How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

Neoliberalism has had an enormous influence on the world, driving policy and governance at the national and international level, particularly since the 1980s, when it was championed by the Reagan administration in the United States and the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom.

The Conversation

The Libertarian Case for Postmodernism

Political economist Mark Pennington draws on the ideas of Hayek and Foucault to show how expert rule and government surveillance are making it harder for people to think freely and live on their own terms.

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Harvard Sues Trump Admin

Plus: Democrats visit El Salvador, Taiwan invasion possibilities, Hayek on rule of law, and more...

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Quinn Slobodian Bastardizes Hayek and Mises

A historian tries to tie two classical liberal economists to the racialist right, and scrambles their words in the process.

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The week in audio: Invisible Hands with David Dimbleby; Artworks: Talk Talk – Living in Another World; White Hot Hate; Luigi – review

David Dimbleby on the fighter pilot who waged war on government policy; Guy Garvey celebrates a misunderstood masterpiece. Plus, confessions of an FBI agent, and divisive US murder suspect Luigi Mangione

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The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing for the beginning of the second Trump Revolution. Trump’s second term will be very different from his first, when his powers were more limited and restrained. In 2016 he did not win a majority of the popular vote.

The Conversation

Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

The struggle between liberalism and reactionary strands of thought has gnawed away at the Tories since the party’s dawn

The Guardian - UK

The MAGA right actually hates America

Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American

Salon

Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom Under Scrutiny

Joseph Stiglitz thinks redistribution and regulation are the road to freedom—he’s wrong.

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The Federal Union: how a group of 1940s economists dreamt of a European Union for the working classes

On the eve of the Second World War, three Oxbridge graduates joined forces in London and wrote a pamphlet calling for the union of Britain with other democracies to avert the coming conflict. They sent the short pamphlet, titled “Federal Union”, to more than 500 opinion-makers in Britain. The warm…

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The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review – neoliberalism’s ascent

An incisive analysis of how the controversial ideology has permeated modern life

Reason

David Boaz on Libertarianism, Ronald Reagan, and the 2024 Election

"There's all these illiberals on the left, there's all these illiberals on the right, and yet liberalism endures," says the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute.

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Is Javier Milei Making Argentina Great Again?

The new Argentine president is popular with American libertarians, but his record at home looks increasingly populist and authoritarian.

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How 1990s Libertarians Laid the Groundwork for Cryptocurrency

Economist Friedrich Hayek inspired an early foray into electronic cash.

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David Boaz: Libertarianism Is the Intellectual Core of Liberalism

How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to save the world!’: Grace Blakeley, TikTok’s answer to Tony Benn

The millennial economist talks to Sam Leith about the perils of global capitalism, fighting her corner online and having a ‘midlife crisis’ at 29

Reason

Nate Silver: Libertarians Are the Real Liberals

"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.

The Conversation

A new biography of Donald Horne examines a life of indefatigable energy and intellectual curiosity

In May 2004, little over a year before he died, Donald Horne took to the stage at the Sydney Writer’s Festival for an event to mark the launch of the fourth edition of Griffith Review: Making Perfect Bodies. Donald had written an essay called “Mind, body, age” that vigorously burst…

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Biden's Experience Doesn't Mean He Can Plan an Economy

No amount of experience can solve the "knowledge problem."

The Guardian - UK

If Labour is to succeed it needs not just new policies, but a whole new philosophy

The work and ideals of the late John Rawls provide a progressive framework that could supplant neoliberalism, says philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler

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