Samuel Gregg

Elon wants Trump to understand how a pencil gets made

8 April 2025 6:35 am

“I-Pencil,” the fable-like essay by the economist Leonard E. Reed, remains one of the best introductions to the free market. It shows the ways…

Team Trump’s incoherent plan to change GDP measurements

13 March 2025 3:30 am

If there is anything that all governments watch carefully, it is GDP growth. Without substantive and ongoing increases in what…

Why Davos only makes the world’s ‘polycrisis’ worse

17 January 2023 5:28 pm

‘Polycrisis’. If you haven’t heard of the word, it’s likely that you soon will, courtesy of the World Economic Forum, which is meeting this week…

Why it isn’t mad to oppose the World Economic Forum

31 December 2022 6:00 pm

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and its long-serving founder and Executive Chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab, are the subjects of many insane conspiracy…

We’re in dark days for market liberalism

15 October 2022 8:58 pm

If there is anything that the swift overturning of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s purported free market revolution has taught us,…

religion

The woke war on religion

27 July 2020 10:30 pm

Though you wouldn’t know it from most American media outlets, the phenomenon of vandalizing and burning religious sites which is…