Interventionism

In the 1950s, the government hatched a plan for martial law, state-planned production, and rationing in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It would have failed.

The city of Chicago has a long, notorious history of corrupt and intrusive politicians who care nothing about personal freedom. Douglas Carey did not realize how bad it truly was until he moved to there. 

The purpose of the Patients' Bill of Rights is to destroy HMOs and pave the way for the complete socialization of American health care. William Anderson explains. 

Yes, there are monopolies in the world, all of them created by government. Merging media moguls are not among them, says Ilana Mercer.

Financial meltdowns and exploding funds have discredited the free capital market in Romania. But was it a case of market, or government, failure? Tudor Smirna investigates.

In 1940, Mises set out to explain the errors of "middle-of-the-road" policies. He ended up writing the history of the next ten years before they occurred. Robert Murphy is the reviewer.

They hail from Harvard, Yale, and Cornell, but these economists haven't learned the first lesson of economics. William Anderson corrects their errors.

Part of the reason seat belt laws and speed limits bother me is that they extend a tentacle of government into automobile safety issues-- yet another place it does not belong. Not only are such laws immoral, but they set a precedent for even more intrusive regulations. Next thing I know, the Food and Drink Police will be snatching candy bars from my hand and replacing them with rice cakes.

The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn't exist.

Former Clinton economist Laura D’Andrea Tyson continues her campaign against the free market, this time calling for price controls. William Anderson straightens her out.