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Walter Block
Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, at Loyola University New Orleans.
Time Preference and the Seen and the Unseen
How basic economics can shed light on and improve the situation for Israel
Viewpoints
September 17, 2024
Wildfires in Canada: Global Warming or Socialist Forests?
Commentary Thanks to wildfires in eastern Canada, the air quality of New York City and other northeastern cities ...
Viewpoints
June 30, 2023
The Difference Between Direct and Indirect Help to the Poor
Commentary There are two very different ways to help the poor. One is beloved of the left, but ...
Viewpoints
May 30, 2023
The Marvel of the Invisible Hand
Commentary Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is certainly the most wondrous, astounding, and marvelous concept in all of economics, ...
Viewpoints
March 20, 2023
Socialist Security
Commentary Social Security is the third rail of U.S. politics. President Joe Biden has recently made great hay ...
Viewpoints
March 2, 2023
My Response to Jeffrey Tucker on COVID
Commentary Jeff Tucker says this about me: “We could also mention the tragic case of Walter Block, a ...
Viewpoints
February 8, 2023
Too Much Choice
Commentary Back in 2015, in a highly publicized comment, Bernie Sanders said there was too much choice in ...
Viewpoints
September 27, 2022
The Minimum Wage Law Must Be Repealed
Commentary Perhaps the most sophisticated argument in favor of the minimum wage law is the one based on ...
Viewpoints
August 24, 2022
In Praise of Ideological Diversity
Commentary We need more diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the ideological dimension. This should hold true everywhere, ...
Viewpoints
July 4, 2022
Prayer Most Certainly Should Be a Firing Offense in a Government School
Commentary Joe Kennedy lost his high school football coaching job. Did he engage in any untoward behavior with ...
Viewpoints
June 3, 2022
A Poison Pill
Commentary The poison pill has been in the news of late. No, this has nothing to do with ...
Viewpoints
April 19, 2022
The Canadian Metric System
Commentary In January 1970, with its “White Paper on Metric Conversion in Canada” the government of that country ...
Viewpoints
March 31, 2022
Doctors? Pharmacists?
Commentary Should doctors be allowed, by law, to fulfill medical prescriptions for their patients? Until recently, Montana forbade ...
Viewpoints
January 10, 2022
Who Is to Blame?
Commentary Darrell E. Brooks Jr. is accused of driving his SUV into a crowd of people. He allegedly ...
Viewpoints
January 6, 2022
Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
Commentary Peter Seeger poignantly asked, "Where have all the flowers gone?" I ask, instead, where have all the ...
Viewpoints
December 2, 2021
Privatize Education
Commentary In the view of Terry McAuliffe, former Virginia gubernatorial candidate, “I don’t think parents should be telling ...
Viewpoints
November 10, 2021
Appreciating Black Free-Enterprisers
Commentary White advocates of laissez-faire capitalism are a dime a dozen. Diminishing marginal utility is what makes black ...
Viewpoints
November 3, 2021
Words Can Never Harm You?
Commentary There are only two ways to fight for liberty. One of them is physically. But our friends ...
Viewpoints
October 21, 2021
If America Is Irredeemably Racist, Why Is Immigration Only in One Direction?
Commentary Haitians have been massing at the southern border of the United States, and their situation is precarious. ...
Viewpoints
October 12, 2021
Should Universities Cancel Critical Race Theory?
Commentary There are numerous politicians who fervently wish critical race theory (CRT) to besquelched, cancelled, and ignored. This ...
Viewpoints
August 31, 2021
Buildings Collapsing: the Fault of Capitalism?
Commentary What do we learn from the story of the Three Little Pigs? One of them built his ...
Viewpoints
August 18, 2021
Tax Rates Race to the Bottom?
Commentary According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, global corporate income taxes have been lo these many years ...
Viewpoints
June 22, 2021
Saving Girls’ Sports
Commentary The feminists are illogical, once again. Nowadays, the feminists are all up in arms about the intervention ...
Viewpoints
May 18, 2021
Should Those Responsible for the Minimum Wage Law Be Indicted as Criminals?
Commentary In the view of most economists, a minimum wage law will raise the compensation of some unskilled ...
Viewpoints
April 14, 2021
Editor’s Note
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Viewpoints
December 15, 2020
Privatize PBS and NPR
Commentary In this era of the pandemic, it's even more important than otherwise that the general public has ...
Viewpoints
June 10, 2020
Free Enterprise Is the Best Way to Help the Black Community
Commentary President Donald Trump is fully aware that if he can garner even 20 percent of the black ...
Viewpoints
May 19, 2020
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