Big Government

Moore's film strikes a universal chord within the consciousness of all people: the fear of power and the love of freedom. Eric Mattei, however, asks whether Moore's motives are rooted in liberty or detraction.

Competition is a productive aspect of the market economy, writes Ninos Malek, but sometimes businesses urge the government to intervene when their competitors pose a threat. This is the driving force behind antitrust legislation.

A life of fidelity to Leviathan in a government bureaucracy is neither a badge of honor nor the mark of a meaningful life, writes Chris Westley.

Consumers are eating shrimp like never before, writes Don Mathews, so why is the industry so unhappy?

The root of the pension problem, writes Carl Horowitz, is the inherent unsoundness of State-granted guarantees to firms (and unions) against market failure.

There are many reasons for the decline of the family, lifestyle choice among them, writes Per Henrik Hansen.

Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic.

Whether or not he had committed any crimes (and, apparently, he had not), Quattrone had plenty about which to be nervous, write Bill Anderson and Candice Jackson.

Given the reality that markets are self-regulating, how did the US economy (not to mention economies of other nations) become a morass of hundreds of thousands of state, local, and federal regulations that govern things to the minutest detail? Furthermore, why have we not seen a revolt of business owners and consumers alike, who ultimately pay the price for the modern regulatory state? The answer is both simple— and complex.

Print publications are subject to no FCC-style censor, writes Gardner Goldsmith, and the market has managed itself quite well.