The Environment

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George Reisman

In a manner reminiscent of witch doctors urging primitive people to sacrifice their sheep and goats in order to mollify the wrath of the gods, toda

George Reisman

The environmental movement maintains that science and technology cannot be relied upon to build a safe atomic power plant, to produce a pesticide t

Manuel Lora
Manuel Lora looks at Katrina aid six months since the hurricane.
Sean Corrigan

A scan of this morning’s newspapers reveals that the Global Platonic Republic is about to launch a new campaign to fund its dangerous Collect

Tim Kern
Economic ignorance rises to the top: that’s Tim Kern’s explanation for FEMA’s continued support of building in flood-prone areas.
Robert P. Murphy

Now that the furor over the botched response to Hurricane Katrina has largely subsided, Robert Murphy examines an aspect of the episode that most commentators have neglected, namely how the market might have managed the crisis better.

Jayant Bhandari

Millions suffer every year in the subcontinent from a cycle of horrible floods and water shortages, writes Jayant Bhandari. Why is it that so many people die in these countries while the West hardly ever suffers from such comparable problems?

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Watching the Capitol Hill hearings on what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina provided a glimpse of what it must have been like in the Politburo in the 1950s, writes Lew Rockwell.

N. Joseph Potts

President Bush tells us to drive less and limit trips to only the essentials, writes Joseph Potts. Huber and Mills have the antidote.