About Nature's God America was founded on freedom, supposedly. So how come government intrudes into every aspect of our lives now? How come tyranny is back? Socialism, the modern term for tyranny, was not yet in use in 1776. But the Founders would have had no difficulty recognizing that the socialist redistribution at the core of American policy today is incompatible with the unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness that they thought they put in our Declaration of Independence and protected in perpetuity with our Constitution. What happened? Nature's God describes how Western governments...

In Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Inequality, I show how the freedoms of the English-speaking peoples led to prosperity through the ability of stock exchange founders to design and run their markets as they saw fit, without input or oversight from regulators. Did this result in rigging? Yes, it did. But their rigging created the paradigm that enabled London and New York to lead their countries and, ultimately, the world, toward the first glimmers of self-sufficiency and wealth for all. That paradigm, which I call the "do-it-yourself monopoly," first appeared tentatively around 1690 in...