iain murray
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Digital ID and the Return of Big Brother Britain
Fresh out of university and looking for a career in public policy, I interviewed for a job in the Conservative…
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Why the Old Left–Right Divide No Longer Works
A century ago, Michael Oakeshott, Britain’s great skeptic of politics, a grand project, diagnosed a sickness that now afflicts every…
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The Founders Would Be Appalled by Trump’s Tariff Policy—Even Hamilton
President Trump has, it is clear, upended the global trading system and America’s place in it through his aggressive use…
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New York’s Socialist Temptation: Young People’s Idealism Ignores Economics
“Socialism,” said the British free speech campaigner Lord Young, “Always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man…
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The Resurgence of Do It Yourself Economics
To listen to some people, you’d think that America had been run by economists — and specifically free-market economists —…
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US Trade Policy is a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Disaster
Some years ago, the singer and activist Bono shocked many of his supporters when he told them, “Aid is just…
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A Civil Service for the Twenty-First Century
In 1881, a president was assassinated over the future of the civil service. James Garfield, who believed in civil service…
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DOGE Gets Serious in Its War on the Administrative State
I have argued for over a decade that America has a fourth, largely unaccountable branch of government in the administrative…
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Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
With President Trump’s return to office after the Biden interregnum, we can be sure of one thing: tariffs are going…
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