The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2011

Isaac Newton's life was a landmark event in the history of science. His funeral was, unknowingly, a landmark event in the history of human freedom.

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2011

Rousseau's Original Man in the state of nature assumes away our innate social tendencies. From his false premises come many of his false conclusions:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/26/2011

Deirdre McCloskey's Great Fact is the leaps and bounds that human well-being has made over the last 200 years. The improvement is a factor of…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/25/2011

Erskine tells a story that explains to Paine’s prosecutors why someone who threatens force during an argument is almost surely wrong:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/24/2011

This quote from friend-of-CEI Matt Ridley is too good not to share. Something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving:…