Big Government

The lands were public and the firefighters government employees. These two facts have much to do with why they died. Walter Block explains. 

In the 1950s, the government hatched a plan for martial law, state-planned production, and rationing in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It would have failed.

A former secretary of labor regrets the state's declining effective power over economic life. A review by Christopher Westley. 

Tax protestors prevailed and stopped a new tax. Some lawmakers called it "mob rule," but it was really just state taxpayers trying to preserve liberty.

The Alternative Minimum Tax was supposed to soak the rich. Predictably, it is now poised to soak huge swaths of the middle class.

James Ostrowski examines the Supreme Court ruling against medical marijuana: an accurate interpretation of a nauseating law.

Yes, there are monopolies in the world, all of them created by government. Merging media moguls are not among them, says Ilana Mercer.

In an amazing rhetorical trick, the press has a new name for central planning and price control: deregulation. Don Mathews shows how and why this is done.

Citing railroads, the TVA, and interstate highways, Michael Kelly of The Atlantic Monthly says government has done wonders for us. Tibor Machan raises the question: At what cost?

They hail from Harvard, Yale, and Cornell, but these economists haven't learned the first lesson of economics. William Anderson corrects their errors.