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1. Nationalistic politicians often attack free markets and economic freedom

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, May 10, 2017 As France and Turkey show, populism and the deepening urban/rural split across many often-dissimilar countries represents a dangerous and confusing threat to prosperity as the populist economic urge varies ...

2. Economic freedom takes force off the table, creates mutually beneficial incentives

   Why is economic freedom important? Is it intrinsically valuable or is it valuable because of the outcomes it produces? That was a key question when then-Fraser Institute executive director Michael Walker and Milton and Rose Friedman ...

3. Blazing Saddles and crony capitalists

   The recent death of Gene Wilder prompted a number of showings of his films around the country. I was able to attend a screening of the Mel Brooks classic comedy Blazing Saddles. The comedy still holds up after more than 40 years, but ...

4. Venezuela’s tragedy spurred by crony capitalists and socialists who detest free markets

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, August 13, 2016 Imagine a city where menus don’t print prices because inflation drives them higher daily; where streets are ghostly empty after dark and the murder rate is the world’s highest; where people queue for hours ...