Dr Will Jones: Milei Wins Landslide in Argentina, Confounding Doubters of State-Shrinking Agenda

Argentine President Javier Milei’s party has won a landslide in midterm elections, with voters confounding doubters by backing his cost-slashing, state-shrinking agenda and deregulation of the economy. The Telegraph has more.

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Why aren't National & ACT light years ahead in the polls?.....

Given the mess Labour left, why aren't National & ACT light years ahead in the polls? Its the religious-style libertarian beliefs of their leaders and advisers.

About 10 years ago when ACT was on 0.2% of the vote with turmoil in the party & departure of leader, John Banks, who was being prosecuted in the High Court over Kim Dot Com's donations, a friend who worked in ACT's office in Newmarket asked me to present at their meetings & help rehabilitate it.

Jeffrey A. Tucker: What Broke Libertarianism?

Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times. But among those who were supposed to be less susceptible were the people called libertarians. They fell too, and tragically so. This subject is especially salient to me because I have long considered myself to be among them.

Richard Epstein: In Defense of Libertarianism

The surprising persistence of Ron Paul during the Republican presidential primary process has brought the libertarian theory that he champions into the spotlight. At one level, what Paul says about the tradition is surely correct. It does not take a bold imagination to think that the level of government intrusion in the lives and businesses of its citizens has moved to an unacceptable and unsustainable level. He is right to stress the corruption that large government brings to social life.
 
In today’s environment, individuals divert their energy from producing wealth for themselves, which would otherwise create greater opportunities for others, to securing the transfer of wealth from others, which in the end diminishes all the possibilities for growth created by human ingenuity and invention.