Max Borders
Max Borders is editor of The Freeman magazine and director of content for The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He is also author of Superwealth: Why we should stop worrying about the gap between rich and poor. A writer and innovator with a decade of experience in the non-profit world, Max works daily towards a condition of peace, freedom and abundance for all people.
Related Freeman Articles
Anything Peaceful
Why Are There No Libertarian Countries?
The question that rattled a movement
JUNE 14, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
This question has been put forth as a devastating critique of libertarianism--mainly by those who are worried about the movement's popularity. It's attributed to Michael Lind. He certainly made it famous for a week.
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Collectivized Children
All Your Kids Are Belong to Us
JUNE 05, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
A controversial ad claiming that children belong to the community underscores how fully the State education apparatus disrupts the children's education within real families and real communities.
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Keeping Austin Weird
MAY 01, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
Austin only seems weird because it's so much more interesting--and tolerant--than most other places. And Austinites understand and love the freedom that makes this wildly fertile, vastly creative, "weird" place possible.
Anything Peaceful
Truth Shines Clearest When Times Are Darkest
APRIL 26, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
Remembering F. A. "Baldy" Harper
Rules Over Rulers
Swarm Orders: Time to Build on Hayekâs Taxonomy?
APRIL 16, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
New ways of organizing the workplace point to a third kind of order with elements of both emergence and planning, but fully defined by neither.
Anything Peaceful
Deirdre McCloskey: Max U, the Virtues and Imprudent Communitarians
APRIL 03, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
I (Max B) got to sit down with Deirdre McCloskey and discuss the ghost of Bentham, Max U, and transcendent virtues.
Anything Peaceful
Probing Shikha Dalmia's Brain
I got to sit down with one of my favorite writers, Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation, to discuss issues of wealth and want.
MARCH 14, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
I got to sit down with one of my favorite writers, Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation, to discuss issues of wealth and want.
Rules Over Rulers
Wealth Inequality: Predictably Irrational
MARCH 05, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
A video making the rounds makes some points on wealth distribution that are based on dubious studies. In an excerpt from his book Superwealth, Max Borders explains where the study's authors went wrong.
Anything Peaceful
The Movement, Startups, and the Discovery Process
FEBRUARY 13, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
The liberty movement needs to try new things--even if they're somewhere between "obviously good" and "seemingly crazy"--if it wants to reach its potential.
Anything Peaceful
The Fortunes of a Country
FEBRUARY 07, 2013 by MAX BORDERS
I want to urge that there is a common good toward which we can work: equal freedom. The problem is, the real common good is tough for most people to get their heads around, clouded as the idea has become by collectivism.
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