Big Government

The Jedi sacrifice truth and justice to ambition, writes Adam Young. May this serve as a warning to all who see in emergency circumstances a reason to betray principles and adopt the methods of the Dark Side. 

In their recently published paper, “The Curley Effect: The Economics of

Communist Parties are still alive and well, even in post-communist countries. Luca Ferrini speculates that the larger the state, the more it corrupts the mind and the culture. Communism means never having to leave the nest.

Ending price supports would certainly allow agricultural markets to work more efficiently, but isn’t it odd to observe the government voluntarily ending a subsidy program that benefits a powerful political constituency—wealthy corporate farmers? It is odd indeed, which is why it isn’t true.

I here offer what I regard as Bush’s top ten economic errors, which might be the very errors that will make the next depression far worse than it needs to be. Needless to say, this list is not exhaustive.

Writes Antony Mueller: Coercive capital-based systems do not eliminate the vicious cycle of wealth destruction.

The fallout from the French vote of “no” on the EU constitution includes a sign that Tony Blair may scrap plans to hold a similar refer

How is Social Security different in kind from any other government program? Charles Rounds argues that it is not different at all.

Every season there is a new contender for the conservative mini-treatise of the day. Usually written by the newest would-be Buckley, it offers readers a new way of understanding the ideological climate and a new perspective on how conservatives should fit within it.

Opponents of employment-at-will speak of defending an employee's "individual freedom." Arthur Foulkes argues that this isn't freedom at all.