The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government inte…

- Arnold Kling

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

- Arnold Kling

I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that …

- Arnold Kling

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the diseas…

- Arnold Kling

Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, t…

- Arnold Kling

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

- Arnold Kling

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is t…

- Arnold Kling

Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

- Arnold Kling

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling gove…

- Arnold Kling