“America should continue to lean into what Americans produce best: brilliant minds and equally brilliant ideas, not toasters and plastic flamingos.” — How the West Wins from Globalization @tonymmorley for @NRO https://t.co/1ZCB2VKMh6 📦

Morley is a progress-driven pronatalist, “YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) extremist.” Stop Gemini, I'm blushing!

Gemini's review of my position: “He believes that human ingenuity, unleashed by free markets and supported by capable institutions, is the only moral path forward. He is "Right-coded" on economics but "Futurist-coded" on culture.”

Economic freedom and prosperity are directly correlated. Countries with high economic freedom have wealthier parents, who bury far fewer young children. Source: Economic Freedom of the World, 2024 Annual Report https://t.co/Lxj3kC3o4I

‘the Warmth of Collectivism’ is the foundation of poverty, corruption, child mortality and dearth. 🇻🇪

“The warmth of” individualism reduced child mortality from 40% to 4% globally, and extreme poverty from 90% to 9% — lest we forget.

More failures of free market capitalism like this please. ☝️

In 1902 a basic white glass dinner set of 35 pieces cost $1.98 in the United States, $65+/- inflation adjusted 2025 — roughly a week's wages for an unskilled worker then. Today, at $0.90 AUD/ $0.60 USD, U.S. worker earning $7.25/h would need to work 5 minutes to buy each piece.

The Wealth Of Nations, Book V Chapter II Part II, Appendix to Articles I&II, p. 861, para. 12.

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people," — and using it to fund fraud, corruption, war and waste. 💸

"Turning our back on the culture that built civilization will stifle progress and sow poverty, decline and conflict, at home and abroad."

“The governments of the West are once again turning inward, toward nationalism, mercantilism, protectionism and authoritarianism.”

“This was a world without freedom of speech, free expression, self-determination, or the right to participate in shaping the future of your country.” — The Enlightenment Isn't Dead, Yet

“Left unchecked, a return to pre-Enlightenment culture, economics, law and government will render the average American with less freedom and prosperity, and with a life more akin to the past, than the future of flourishing many aspire to.”

“The solution is to embrace leaders and policies that turn outward, not inward; and that embrace freedom, not control.” — The Enlightenment Isn't Dead, Yet

“Are they literally trying to make it impossible to run a business?” MacDonald asked me. Because “that’s how it feels.”

How the Grinch stole free trade. “Donald Trump’s War on Christmas — It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.” https://t.co/3yGaZISDuc 🎁

E22: “Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand and sold in the United States” https://t.co/fLggSfmOGP 🍐

Capitalism erodes racism, protects the environment, fuels growth and improves material living standards — yet, “It has become widely accepted that capitalism has failed” — That argument is nonsense, and “Matthew Lau isn’t having it.”