Private Property

Mr. Pipes has written a very good book, but he has made life difficult for me as a reviewer. He defends the importance of property rights throughout the book, but he does not argue systematically, 

People fret and complain about trashy beaches, but there is an obvious solution: make them private and charge for entry. 

Americans have more housing choices than ever before, thanks to the automobile and modern communications. The regulators are fit to be tied, says William Anderson. 

Contrary to the propaganda, the EPA has done little or nothing to improve the quality of life and much to diminish it. 

The only secure foundation for the right of free speech is private property, but civil libertarians are loathe to admit it. 

Government has an influence over programming because of an age-old political decision to nationalize the airwaves. 

Austrian economists should revel in the story of Ukara, a small, Tanzanian island in Lake Victoria. John Reader, in his astoundingly detailed and fascinating work, Africa: A Biography of the Continent (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), presents among a wealth of other information that should be of genuine interest to economic scholars a little over three pages (beginning at 255) of highly persuasive refutation of the statists' cry for central planning to protect against deadly "sprawl."

Garet Garrett wrote in 1932, "Mass delusions are not rare. They salt the human story." Indeed, mass delusions are no more apparent than in the realm of public policy and especially in the faith people have in their government to carry out functions designed to promote the public good. How else to describe the persistent belief that government is a good steward of resources of any kind?

The New Jersey court ruling on the Boy Scouts violates a core principle of freedom. (Commentary by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

Private subways-even though highly regulated, even though the fare was held to a nickel by government decree--fueled the expansion of the city. As lines were extended, neighborhoods and shopping centers grew around the stations. But by 1940, through rigorous regulation and through Communist labor unions that sabotaged private ownership, the subways were taken over by the city.