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The postliberal war on economics Peak oil panic didn’t just mislead environmentalists, it helped birth a right-wing anti-markets worldview that is helping run the country

www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-postli...

07.02.2026 05:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Neo/liberal? The Etymology of a Catch-All Term

My latest: thefreemanmag.substack.com/p/neoliberal

28.01.2026 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This 1,300-page anticapitalist history gets a few things wrong Sven Beckert's 'Capitalism: A Global History' is...not a reliable history.

reason.com/2025/12/29/t...

29.12.2025 20:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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27.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My next coauthored book will provide the most comprehensive survey to date of the question "What is neoliberalism?"

22.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The American New Right looks like the European old right When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?

reason.com/2025/09/26/t...

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The "1619 Project", Six Years On by Phillip W. Magness

thefreemanmag.substack.com/p/the-1619-p...

15.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Opinion | Trump’s New Tax Is in the Mail The abolition of the de minimis exemption means you’ll soon be paying more for everything you buy from abroad.

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

14.08.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Opinion | Will the ‘1619 Project’ Spoil America’s Party? As the anniversary of 1776 draws near, get ready for a resurgence of the New York Times’s false history.

www.wsj.com/opinion/will...

16.07.2025 00:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 1619 Project Has Failed. Why Do Academics Still Take It Seriously? | National Review Academic elites set aside their own expertise to promote its political narrative.

www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/the-...

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Playing with Economic Fire The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.

quillette.com/2025/05/14/p...

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anti-tariff.org

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Quinn Slobodian bastardizes Hayek and Mises Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, by Quinn Slobodian, Zone Books, 272 pages, $29.95 Quinn Slobodian, a historian at

reason.com/2025/04/16/q...

16.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Phil Magness: The problem with Trumponomics Economic historian Phil Magness on the real history of tariffs and why Trump is so wrong about them.

reason.com/podcast/2025...

28.03.2025 04:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Opinion | A Specter Is Haunting America’s New Right Marxism in any form should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

www.wsj.com/opinion/a-sp...

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Don't Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You'll Get Both | David R. Henderson In his inaugural address, President Trump repeated his call for an External Revenue Service. At other times, he has talked about replacing personal income taxes with high tariffs on imports. Besides t...

www.independent.org/news/article...

29.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, Marx Was Not an Important Economist An odd battle erupted on social media last week when economist Ben Golub questioned whether students in his field needed to work through “classic” authors such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx to claim exp...

blog.independent.org/2025/01/13/n...

14.01.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blaming Bill Buckley for racism, January 6, and more Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" thesis.

Review of David Austin Walsh's "Taking America Back" (Yale University Press, 2024)

reason.com/2024/11/23/b...

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Did Karl Marx party in 1891? The effect of SPD's Erfurt program on Karl Marx's citations The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) is often proposed as a pre-Soviet popularizer of Marxist economic theories due to its electoral successes in Germany in the decades before World War ...

Synthetic Karl Marx is back for round 2.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

13.11.2024 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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