The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.