Tire Trade Tirade
By embracing protectionism, President Obama has adopted a policy reducing innovation, destroying wealth, perverting incentives, and encouraging destructive nationalism.
Cass Sunstein Wants to Modify Our Behavior
Cass Sunstein, who serves as “regulatory czar” in the Obama administration, seems to be well suited for his position. It appears that Mr. Sunstein wishes to regulate just about everything.
Joseph, Secretary of Agriculture
Pharaoh made the appointment stick by putting his own signet ring on Joseph’s hand and a solid gold chain around his neck. For lack of an automobile, an official chariot was assigned to the new dignitary.
The UN, International Law, and Nuclear Weapons
Lew Rockwell noted on his blog recently some tentative steps towards disarmament between the US and Russia; he’s right: blessed are the peacemakers.
People on Our Side: Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov has always made his own words pirouette with the grace and fluidity of a Pavlova. He can make individual stylists of others merely by suggesting a shift in emphasis here, an excision there...
In an Ideal America
Every person should be free to pursue his ambition to the full extent of his abilities, regardless of race or creed or family background and to associate with whom he pleases for any reason he pleases.
Carl Menger’s Theory of the Origin of Money
Carl Menger has not only provided an irrefutable praxeological theory of the origin of money. He has also recognized the import of his theory for the elucidation of fundamental principles of praxeology and its methods of research.1
Horwitz on Woods
Check out this wonderful review of Woods’s Meltdown:
Areopagitica: Milton’s Influence on Classical and Modern Political and Economic Thought
Milton makes plain why a lack of competition and the presence of central control in the market of ideas is detrimental. The market of goods and services is not so different.
