Revitalizing Liberalism in the Age of Brexit and Trump

Liberalism is in crisis, again. That’s why we’re launching a campaign to restate, update, and defend the case for the open society.

On “Baseline” Disputes

We wouldn’t argue about politics and policy if we agreed. Disagreement is the ground on which debate is waged. But disagreement is often deeper and more complicated than we immediately grasp. This can make it difficult for parties to arguments to even agree on the meaning of terms or on a…

Tyler Cowen on Universal Basic Income

We shouldn’t be so quick to conclude that a universal basic…

The Great Enrichment and Social Justice

The great strange fact of human history is how it came to be that a good chunk of our species, after more than 100,000 years of scraping by, suddenly got rather wildly rich. Deirdre McCloskey, the eminent economic historian and social theorist, calls it the…