Where Have All the Workers Gone?
As many have long warned, Donald Trump’s effort to rebuild America’s industrial strength has run into a hard limit: a shortage of workers.As Joel Kotkin notes, the biggest gap isn’t…
Smarter Than the Market
I’ve received a few questions about a line I wrote in a note on indicative planning: “I can almost hear the objection — how could any government be wiser than…
Taking Back Control from the Market
Can a government systematically guide an economy without falling into the trap of central planning? Of course it can. For decades after World War II, this was simple common sense…
The Unholy Alliance Against Modernity
Some time ago, I predicted something that sounded absurd at the time: that radical anti-civilizational neo-Marxism would eventually blend with the conspiratorial wing of the populist right. These movements couldn’t…
The Un-Racial Civilizations
Why is racism foreign to the Czech and Slavic spirit? Because it has never truly existed here. The fact that someone complains about Gypsies stealing or refusing to work—rightly or…
Moral Outrage or Cold Observation?
Today I want to highlight a brief yet profound insight from Professor Slavíček. In his lecture on fraud in science, he makes a seemingly simple distinction: he does not moralize—he…