Mary McGrory, writing for The Washington Post, sees government failure all around her, yet calls for government to do ever more to help the poor, Adam Young discusses the error.

If power-hungry government officials and misanthropic environmentalists would get out of the way, California could avoid energy shortages this summer. George Reisman explains.

Mark Skousen tells a dramatic story with a notable flair, but otherwise, his new history of economic thought is gravely, even fatally, flawed. David Gordon is the reviewer.

According to Tom Brokaw, the “heroic consumer” is keeping the economy from falling into recession. William Anderson deconstructs the Keynesian mythology of spending.

Neoclassical economists are apt to define away individual differences by packing them into a homogeneous category called “tastes.” But this quarantines what economists should be studying.

We are continually told that democracies guard against war. But that view abstracts from the U.S. imperial experience. James Ostrowski compares the rhetoric to the reality.

As more Americans become aware that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, the people who make their income from scaring us are increasing their efforts.

Shelves of books have been written on Third-World poverty and its supposed cure. At last, here is one, by Hernando de Soto, that makes sense and is well worth reading.

The teachings of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises offer the answer to those who say we should dismantle civilization to meet the supposed needs of nature. A very powerful speech by George Reisman.