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Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration–who we are versus who we would...

Art Carden is correct: Kristian Niemietz’s 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies is superb. Yet it’s also deeply depressing. Of course Niemietz’s recounting of the immiseration and often murderous tyranny unleashed by socialism is dismaying. But to anyone who is reasonably informed, the...

Last week, for the Nth time, the Wall Street Journal had a story about shortages of Covid-19 tests ( “Covid-19 Testing Is Hampered by Shortages of Critical Ingredient,” September 25). An important topic. The journalist notes: According to a survey last month by the American Association for...

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWhat struck me most about reading Kristian Niemietz’s superb 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies was not its recounting of socialist failures and horrors. As sad as these are, the existence of, if not all of the details of, these...