Interventionism

Traffic is a powerful and persuasive argument against the domestic and international drug war. Review and critique by Dale Steinreich.

What is it about Canada that the United Nations loves so much? Adam Young investigates.

The New York Times trumpets a new theory of economics (actually a very old one) that yields predictably interventionist conclusions. Tibor Machan responds.

The Governor's supposed solution to the energy fiasco promotes the fiction that government solves problems that private businesses create.

Douglas Carey explains economic anomalies such as electricity shortages, flight delays, and overcrowded roads.

Wendy McElroy decries the EU's attempt to legislate equal rights for women: it will bring about a new form of despotism, she warns.

From rolling blackouts to water shortages, California's troubles result from regulation, says Thomas DiLorenzo

Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.

Woodward reports that Greenspan himself was willing, on occasion, to do things that weren't strictly legal.

Cheer up. A drop in stock prices doesn't destroy wealth, say Robert Murphy and Gene Callahan. It only reveals a change in the marketability of one line of production against another.