Welcome to the spring issue of the Defenders of Capitalism newsletter. Each quarter, we examine economics, culture, and history through a simple but often neglected lens: the human mind as the source of value and prosperity.
In our spring issue, we explore the bipartisan obsession with eroding Americans’ property rights and the virtue of minding one’s business.
Hardly a day goes by without a headline lamenting the fact that the peoples of the world aren’t prolific enough in the baby-making department (with a few sub-Sahara African exceptions, but birthrates are trending down there as well). Quite a change from the population bomb worries of the 1970’s and 80’s.
I just returned from a visit to The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in many respects a first-world tropical paradise in a collectivist Caribbean hell-hole of a neighborhood—think Haiti and Cuba. But it’s an expensive island; with a GDP/capita less than half of the U.S.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Defenders of Capitalism newsletter. Each quarter, we’ll examine economics, culture, and history through a simple but often neglected lens: the human mind as the source of value and prosperity. Our goal is not to shout or persuade by volume, but to clarify—to examine the world as it is and defend the ideas that make flourishing possible.
During the Cold War, Soviet propagandists were always eager for evidence that capitalism was cruel, unstable, morally bankrupt and ultimately dehumanizing. So, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath appeared—first as a novel, then as a Hollywood film—it seemed like a perfect gift.
Engrossed in the divisive politics and outrage industrial complex of our era, many people ignored one of the most interesting spectacles of the year: a parade of six planets on display in the heavens. During the last great planetary alignment of the year, lucky viewers in the northern hemisphere could see Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the pre-dawn hours of August 10.
2025 Winner – Dr. Steve Crews
LPR 2025
Deirdre McGuire – Runner-Up
TerryJosiah Sharpe – Runner-Up
Dalida Sassoon-Bollig
Gaddi Layden
Heather Stidham
Lauren Stellman
Michael Tsogt
Mike Ritter
Tiffany Howell
2024 Co-Winner – Jameson Dion
LPR 2024 Co-Winner – Shonna Tsacoumangos
LPR 2024
Elizabeth Armstrong – Runner Up
Brian Scopa
Carolyn Asher
Jacob Clay
Jake Abendschan
Jason Page
Karl Dierenbach
Will Childers
Date: Thursday, November 7 · 6:30 – 8:30pm MST
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Beyond the Ballot [LIVESTREAM]: An Evening with Yaron Brook & Tom Krannawitter
Join us for a special livestream event with Yaron Brook & Tom Krannawitter and moderated by Mike Williams to discuss the November election and to focus on what’s ugly, bad and…yes even good, about American culture.… Read more >>
This talk was delivered by Michael Williams on “May Day” – International Workers Day – May 1, 2023, to economics students, professors, and administrators at Ben Gurion University in Be’er-Sheva, Israel as part of the Free-Market Road Show, presented by the Austrian Economic Center.… Read more >>
