Poverty

A Lifetime of Progress

I suspect it is pretty safe for me to assume most of you don’t really think of the year 1954. Even in a historical or…

Development as a Victimless Crime

Traditionally a victimless crime was an attempt to save an individual from themselves, usually by…

Fear Works

Just Ask Politicians

Various wannabe “leaders” — Nikki Haley, RFK Jr., Elizabeth Warren for example…

The World Advances, but Africa is in Reverse

It was just over 20 years ago I debated in print a rather…

So You Want to Abolish the Welfare State?

Libertarians are notoriously bad at figuring out how to move from point A to point Z…

In Defense of Informal Housing

A Proposal for Africa

Is Poverty Man-Made?

Nelson Mandela once told a London audience: “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be…

Dismantling Poverty, not Welfare.

Libertarians are notoriously bad at figuring out how to move from point A to point B, let alone to…