Drawing lessons from meteorology and medicine, this article argues that economics should evolve from ideological debate toward evidence-based optimisation. Rather than asking whether taxation, inequality, or redistribution are inherently good or bad, economists should focus on identifying the policy settings that best achieve society’s chosen objectives.
Twenty-five years after the Founders’ Strike, Atlantis appears to have won. Yet Club Atlantis, once the social and economic heart of the community, is in decline. Through a conversation between an ageing John Galt and a young visitor, Club Atlantis explores a question Atlas Shrugged never asked: what happens when productive people continue creating value but stop investing in the institutions that make value creation possible?
The greatest threat to justice today is not moral passion, but moral certainty – the belief that the right answers are already known and that questioning them is itself dangerous. When movements treat reasoning as harm, conscience gives way to conformity, and democracy starts to imitate the very failures it claims to oppose.
Freedom of conscience does not protect people from criticism—it protects the legitimacy of moral reasoning itself. This essay argues that when moral certainty replaces judgment, societies drift toward conformity, totalisation, and the erosion of responsibility.
Why inflation since 2020 resists rate hikes—and how capital markets, profit margins, and policy errors risk a modern return to stagflation.
America has long mythologized its Second Amendment as a safeguard against tyranny. With Trump openly enacting an authoritarian regime, one must ask: have Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione fired the first shots in a long-anticipated civil resistance movement? Not righteous. Not clean. But perhaps, in their minds, necessary.
