Freedom and Flourishing

  Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during t...

  Nigel Biggar acknowledges that British colonialism contained evils and injustices, but he judges it to have been much better than its mode...

  Cartoon by Peter Nicholson from “ The Australian ” newspaper:  www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au Some erstwhile supporters of capitalism prob...

  This is a companion piece to the preceding post in which I considered the extent to which international differences in personal freedom r...

 J C Kumarappa posed that question his book, Economy of Permanence, which was first published in 1945. He argued that in the final analysis...

  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...

  The question I have posed above strikes me as being delightfully ambiguous. It could be asking what happened to bring to an end the era in...

  Unfortunately, few readers of this blog will know anything about Bill Carmichael or his transparency project. My main purpose here is ther...

  Spencer went on to suggest that trade would have been more successful in the absence of the privileges that the British government had con...