The Trump Administration is now bragging about its trade policy’s results being ALMOST as bad as the Great Recession!

Russia threw the entire might of their crumbling civilization at one small poor country. They mobilized their entire population and their entire economy for war. They used up their vast Soviet stockpiles. They called in every ally and every favor. And they have achieved nothing.

Johan Norberg Johan Norberg (F&D): "The ancient Greek historian Thucydides identified two opposite mindsets: that of Athenians, eager to venture out into the world to acquire something new, and that of Spartans, shutting out the world to preserve what they already had. Only

Congress could stop this madness tomorrow. It could take back control of trade policy and cancel the tariffs. It could bring impeachment proceedings on the impeccable grounds that the president has plainly lost his mind. No one who is compos mentis writes as he just did to the

Peak Human in Spanish:

The US since 1990: • Real GDP per capita: +68% • Real median wages (PCE): +34% • Infant mortality: -42% • Life expectancy: +4 years • Nonfarm employment: +46% (50M jobs) • Median household wealth: +128% • Industrial capacity: +76%

Interview about the new world disorder in El Mundo.

After US threats against Greenland and the EU failing to ratify a trade deal with Mercosur after 25 years, the new leader of the free world is…Canada. ”Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” is no longer the most boring headline ever, but the last, best hope for Western civilization 🇨🇦

Capitalism has delivered unprecedented wealth, longer lives, and technological abundance yet public support for it continues to collapse... Johan Norberg breaks down the historical blind spots and misunderstood Swedish model. WATCH: youtu.be/L8bBF37QyDk

The vilification of the Industrial Revolution is historically illiterate.

"Wealth is not a pile of gold that just happens to lie around, it’s something that has to be regenerated all the time." – Johan Norberg explains why openness is essential to long term prosperity.

Is this the fall of the American empire? Are we doomed, like Rome? Some headlines suggest that. But historian Johan Norberg says, “We can still save this Golden Age” if we learn the lessons from other golden ages:

I hope this means we’ll see more Thomas Sowell Democrats in the future.

For every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David J. Bier.

While the share of people in extreme poverty has been falling since the 19th century, the total number didn’t begin to decline until the late 20th century, when rapid economic growth spread worldwide. Since then, poverty has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. Explore the

Golden ages were built on openness to new ideas and trade. Their demise came when they started to close society to those influences to protect themselves. Johan Norberg Johan Norberg in the latest IMFPodcast open.spotify.com/episode/5HjE5O…

As global press freedom dwindles, corrupt politicians rejoice (from The Economist) economist.com/leaders/2026/0…

My latest: In 2007, a prominent conservative academic predicted civilization would collapse within months. The culprit: peak oil. The collapse never came but the philosophy he built around it—postliberalism—is now in the White House.