Culture and history

A favorite weekend activity for the Sofia burgher is visiting one of the dozen cinemas in the city. As a (semi)member of this electorally self-marginalized group, I also indulge in the pleasure of lying covered in popcorn, staring at a giant screen. The last Hollywood work I consumed in this way is called “The Queen of …

Direct state intervention in pricing is a traditional tool for solving economic or social problems caused by a sharp increase or decrease in prices. The economic past of Bulgaria during the period between the First and Second World Wars (1919-1939) reveals some typical practices of state pricing and their consequences. It was already …

Many young libertarians are familiar with Frédéric Bastiat, but few are aware of his most significant predecessor, who is also one of the greatest "classical" economists - Jean-Baptiste Say. Nowadays, Say is one of those figures in the history of economic science who is systematically ignored, despite his ...

One of the most frequently applied economic regulations is state intervention in pricing. This is easily explained. The increase in prices of essential goods creates social tension. The authorities try to bring calm by subjecting prices to administrative control. It is believed that this helps the poor and the disadvantaged. Elementary economic …

Anyone who has been interested in the history of Bulgarian art knows that the years of the totalitarian communist regime are those in which art was most centralized, controlled and limited artists within certain limits. The period from 1944 to 1989 (very roughly, since things are a little more complicated) are years in which …

Last year, we presented “7 Libertarian Themes for the Christmas Eve Table,” which continues to be a relevant message in 2019. Today, we’re publishing something in the same vein – this time not from the traditional Christmas Eve ritual dinner, but from the traditional holiday TV ritual. The hit comedy with McCauley …

Author: William Griggs, the article is translated from the author's blog In August 1914, in an episode of unprecedented intemperance, the Great Powers of Europe plunged into all-out war with each other. Germany, a rising military power with great ambitions, overran Belgium in search of a quick checkmate of France before Russia could …

The number of Bulgarian victims and victims of World War II (1939-1945) was relatively small. After its beginning, the authorities sincerely tried to maintain neutrality, but on March 1, 1941, they joined as allies of Hitler's Germany, and at the end of the same year they declared a "symbolic war" on the USA and ...

Author: Tom Mullen, fee.org These wonderful works of freedom have disappeared from today's politically correct holiday stuffing "And it came to pass, that there went out a decree from Augustus Caesar, that all the world should be taxed. And that all should be taxed, every man in his own city: for the disobedience of the Roman emperor...

Author: Murray Rothbard, Mises.org Follower of Jefferson or of Alexander Hamilton? Every student, indeed every literate person in the United States, is expected to choose a side and join one of the two camps of the Great Debate. Most people today consider themselves followers of Jefferson. Representatives of a variety of groups, …