Simon O’Connor points out: So Radio NZ ran a story from Reuters about the terrible hate crime attack in Berlin which saw 1 killed and 29 wounded at a pride festival. However they removed a key detail from the story. That the attacker was an Islamist. Reuters had this in their story, yet Radio NZ…
Radio NZ at it again
Radio NZ at it again
30 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Germany, media bias, war against terror
New Research Further Confirms Anti-Growth Impact of Wealth Taxation
30 Jul 2026 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
I’ve shared multiple studies about the harmful impact of wealth taxes (see here, here, here, here, and here). Today, let’s add to the body of evidence. I’ll start by calling attention to a column I wrote in 2019 that warned how wealth taxes mean very high – even confiscatory – taxes on saving and investment. […]
New Research Further Confirms Anti-Growth Impact of Wealth Taxation
Defending the Indefensible: Western Communists and the Berlin Wall
29 Jul 2026 1 Comment
in defence economics, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Berlin wall, East Germany
When the East German government began constructing the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961, its real purpose was unmistakable. It was intended to stop East Germans escaping to the West. Nevertheless, communist parties and sympathetic intellectuals in Western countries attempted to justify the Wall by presenting it as a defensive measure rather than an instrument […]
Defending the Indefensible: Western Communists and the Berlin Wall
Criminal “Villification”: Australia Court Upholds Conviction, Massive Fine, and Compelled Speech in Transgender Case
29 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, property rights Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
We have followed the evisceration of free speech values in the United Kingdom and other Western nations. Australia has been…
Criminal “Villification”: Australia Court Upholds Conviction, Massive Fine, and Compelled Speech in Transgender Case
Hazlitt on Marx
29 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics
The Apples and Oranges Tribunal
28 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in it’s wisdom decides that, at last, apples and oranges must be compared. Not by shoppers — shoppers are biased, they merely reveal what they are willing to pay — but by a tribunal, which will determine whether apples and oranges are of truly equal…
The Apples and Oranges Tribunal
Is Britain’s New Energy Secretary Even Crazier than Mad Ed?
27 Jul 2026 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Marxist economics Tags: British politics
Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh wants full Net Zero by 2030. The post Is Britain’s New Energy Secretary Even Crazier than Mad Ed? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Is Britain’s New Energy Secretary Even Crazier than Mad Ed?
The DSA and the Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
27 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Norway, Sweden
This week, Darializa Avila Chevalier was asked if there has ever been a “successful model of socialism anywhere in the…
The DSA and the Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
The Rise of the Champagne Socialists: Democratic Leaders Join Socialists in Criticizing Capitalism
23 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - USA
Below is my column on Fox.com about the growing condemnation of capitalism in the Democratic Party as establishment figures such…
The Rise of the Champagne Socialists: Democratic Leaders Join Socialists in Criticizing Capitalism
Why is the PPTA not worried about far-left extremism?
15 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
The Press reports: A secondary teachers’ union is hiring an expert to develop guidelines for dealing with the rise in far-right extremism in the classroom. The successful applicant will be paid $10,000 to write “specific advice and guidelines for the membership on dealing with extremism in the classroom”. Do they mean Marxist extremists? I suspect…
Why is the PPTA not worried about far-left extremism?
Tehran Rose: Will Far-Left Influencers Face Charges in Rallying America’s Enemies?
14 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Iran, regressive left
Below is my column in The Hill on the controversies involving far-left influencers rallying support for Iranian and anti-American interests.…
Tehran Rose: Will Far-Left Influencers Face Charges in Rallying America’s Enemies?
Survey: Democrats Turning Heavily in Favor of Socialism
05 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - USA
For many of us who were raised in liberal, Democratic families, the infusion of socialist, anti-free-speech, and anti-Semitic elements into…
Survey: Democrats Turning Heavily in Favor of Socialism
Nine Tweets Ripping Mamdani’s Economically Illiterate Expansion of Rent Control
28 Jun 2026 1 Comment
in applied price theory, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: rent control
I’ve written several columns (here, here, here, here, and here) detailing the folly of rent control. And now that New York City’s dilettante socialist mayor has proposed to expand rent control, I thought about doing the same thing. But I noticed so many clever comments on Twitter/X that I decided on a different approach. Here […]
Nine Tweets Ripping Mamdani’s Economically Illiterate Expansion of Rent Control
The Hollowing of the Political Centre
27 Jun 2026 1 Comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
Across the Western democracies, the political centre is under pressure. The populist right is rising, especially in Europe and the United States, while younger voters are showing renewed interest in socialism, or at least in much more interventionist economic policies. The result is not that the centre has vanished, but that it has lost much […]
The Hollowing of the Political Centre
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