Social Justice, Rights, and Isolationism
Walter Block decries the use and misuse of these terms in modern political vocabularly.
The Dangers of Smart Growth
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.
A Free Market for Genes?
A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.
The Politics of Medical Research
The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it’s public, not private, money that skews research agendas.
Crime and Commerce
James Ostrowski takes on the dissenting Justices, praised by the New York Times, in the Supreme Court’s latest Commerce Clause case.
Hard Green
Peter Huber’s critique of environmentalism has all the right people very upset.
Does the Fed Fight Inflation?
With its latest move to boost interest rates, the Fed is again clouding its role as the sole source of economy-wide price increases.
Baseballs, Shoe Sizers, and Other Predators
What are the economic effects of market dominance by one firm? To hear the Justice Department tell it, market dominance spells disaster
The Fight Over Fletc
An agency within an agency, and the political battle over its future, provides a case study of a much larger problem: government can’t rationally allocate resources.
Rothbard Revises the History of the Great Depression
We now see, thanks to Rothbard’s insights, that the Hoover-Roosevelt period was really a continuum.
