…continued from Part 1   Economic stability Marxists have always seen boom-and-bust cycles as evidence of the fundamental irrationality of … Continue reading “Book review: “The road to socialism and back. An economic history of Poland, 1939-2019” by Peter J. Boettke, Konstantin Zhukov and Matthew Mitchel (Part 2)”

Our colleagues at the Fraser Institute in Canada, in cooperation with the Foundation for Teaching Economics in the US, the … Continue reading “What do British Millennials and Zoomers mean by “socialism”?”

What is socialism? If we go by the dictionary, this seems like a very straightforward and unambiguous matter. Merriam-Webster defines … Continue reading “What “socialism” means – and why it matters”

Being a socialist these days mostly means randomly pointing at things, and shouting “Nationalise this!” or “Socialise that!”. Typical headlines … Continue reading “Should dating apps be socialised? A response to Jacobin”

Preferences for products and brands can sometimes be surprisingly good predictors of political opinions. If you like Richmond Sausages, HP … Continue reading “Book review: “Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World” by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell”

In his 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, the philosopher and political theorist Isaiah Berlin talked about what he saw … Continue reading “Of socialist hedgehogs and liberal foxes”

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the East German uprising of 1953. It was the first of … Continue reading “What Bertolt Brecht had in common with today’s Millennial Socialists”

On 16 May 2022, the Holborn & St Pancras Conservative Association book group organised an event where they discussed the … Continue reading “The rise and mutation of Millennial Socialism”

It has been three years since the release of my book Socialism – The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Since … Continue reading “Socialism – three years on”