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Think of the contest between power and market (in Rothbard's phrase) as two parallel foot races on a track that never ends, writes Lew Rockwell.

Why, oh why, did Congress decline to give us a bit more liberty, aside from the obvious fact that they like the revenue and power? Well, we can't go too much aside after all: they like the revenue and power. From their point of view, why give it up?

Jacob Heilbrunn, writing in the Washington Monthly, uses various criticisms that leading conservatives have made of Bush to proclaim a new "conservative crackup." In the course of his narrative, he rehearses the same old ho-hum history of postwar American conservatism, tells the same old story of how intriguing it is that conservatives are upset with the person they put into power, and then comes to the same old conclusion, that conservatism is deluded, and that we should all be leftists like him.

In the popular academic mind, the doctrine of class-conflict seems to be inextricably linked to the particular Marxist version of the idea.

There I stood with eight olive pits in my cheek, talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store as she waved my half-pound container of antipasto over the scanner light. All the while, I hoped she that she wouldn't notice or ask why I sounded like I had marbles in mouth.

This is the foreword to a forthcoming collection of Critical Essays of Walter Block’s, assembled by Glavan Bogdan of Libertas Pub

As Microsoft prepares for the new release of the new version of its browser, Google is grousing about one of Microsoft’s marketing strategies

Frank Shostak explains how monetary expansion and the rigid exchange rate drive commodity prices up.