Free Markets

While you may see those who walk away from underwater mortgages as morally wrong for breaking their mortgage vows, others see those who stay for the financial beating as stupid. No matter. As prices continue to fall, millions more will make a run for it.

Despite its great complexity and rapid development over the last 10 years, the web works largely without state intervention of any sort.

When you go to the store or to the dentist, do you care whether the person serving you is a man or a woman?

There is neither a right nor need for government intervention to remedy unfair discriminatory practices.

The remake of Mildred Pierce gets it right. Commerce is the driving force of life, the thing that defines who we are and what we do in life. But even for a driven entrepreneur, business isn't everything; it is complicated by myriad personal issues.

The Old Right of the postwar period had a rugged and near-libertarian honesty in domestic affairs as well.

People found innovative ways of supporting each other before the welfare state existed.

Prior to the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, individuals paid for the majority of medical goods and services out of their own pocket and utilized health insurance as a rational tool for mitigating financial risk posed by catastrophic events.

The emptying of cities is not a good trend. It is the city that breeds civilization and civilized life.