The Flame of Oppression
A father enjoying a cigar on a warm evening as he waits to pick up his son from an after-school activity is guilty of a crime.
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Is Higher Inflation Inevitable?
It's going to happen unless we get radical reform soon.
Cardinal Utility: It’s Worse Than You Thought
Preferences are ordinal, and our analysis has to reflect that simple, unavoidable fact.
Education Is More Than Instruction
The person of intelligence tends to "see things as they are," never permits his view of them to be directed by convention, by the hope of advantage, or by an irrational and arbitrary authoritarianism. His consciousness is uncontrolled by prejudice, prepossession, or formula.
Another Plea to End the Insanity
Mexico is rapidly withering. Its very life is being siphoned off by a hopeless war on illegal drugs.
Paper Money Wears Prada
The money inevitably flows to the latest speculative fashion, whatever it happens to be.
The Lovely and Productive World of Thomas
The world of Thomas the Tank Engine is impressively "bourgeois" — everyone is hard at work building civilization. The reason Thomas is the hero of the show isn't his strength (Hiro is stronger) or his speed (Spencer is faster). Rather, Thomas's one superlative trait is that he's a "Very Useful" engine.
Arthur Ekirch on American Militarism
The American empire bestrides the globe, leaving destruction and poverty in its wake.
Just How Bad Are Britain’s Spending Cuts?
Britain's government workers should man up and accept that the free ride is over.
McDonald’s as the Paradigm of Progress
This great company keeps reinventing itself to serve the public: real people, not abstractions.
