The Free Market 14, no. 3 (March 1996) George Wallace’s famous contention that “there ain’t a dime’s worth of difference” between Democrats and Republicans has received ample corroboration since the 1994 elections. The $50 billion Mexican peso bailout, opposed by some 80% of Americans, has been only the most flagrant example of the real meaning
The Free Market 26, no. 9 (September 2006) For lack of a better term I am dubbing it Woods’s Law: whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer them, someone—in the name of helping the poor—will call
The Free Market 19, no. 6 (June 2001) There are no good American history textbooks on the market. I’ve looked. We non-leftists have to settle for the least bad one we can find. A number of my friends told me a year ago that Tindall and Shi’s America: A Narrative History was the least bad. So, I’ve used it this semester for my survey course
The Free Market 19, no. 11 (November 2001) Most of us probably thought the feminist demand for so-called “comparable worth” legislation had died out sometime in the 1980s. The idea was that occupations traditionally held by women should have wage rates raised by government fiat in order to correspond with those of “comparable” male-dominated
The Free Market 20, no. 10 (October 2002) A Days Inn on Long Island was fined on December 26, 2001 for having engaged in “price gouging” following the September 11 terrorist attacks. With the nation’s airports closed, stranded passengers created a sudden and unexpected rise in demand for lodging. Under these circumstances, the Hicksville hotel
The Free Market 13, no. 10 (October 1995) My aunt in Massachusetts, who’s never had much interest in politics, is now a land-rights activist. Bureaucrats hounded her for months, insisting that her small plot is a wetland “protected” under federal law, and demanding that she repent of the high crime of planting a garden on her own property. Now
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