Free Markets

If we had the medical system that a number of politicians and newspaper editorial writers in this country have been demanding, I very likely could have died.

Bruce Ramsey reports on his visit to a seminar conducted by Jeffrey Friedman of Barnard College. "The first day at Princeton has been a hosing-down."

It is conventional to credit medicines and hospitals for long lives, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but we should also give due regard to such conventional consumer products such as shoes that make life past the age of 40 worth living at all.

The Deficit Twins, are, at best, fraternal, not identical, writes Sean Corrigan. In the last six years, US defense spending has risen 60% and four-fifths of this increase has taken place just since the present Administration took office.

Is Australia a dry country? Not at all, writes Benjamin Marks. It has more rainfall than the United States!

Dale Steinreich's June article about the centenary of the founding of the American Medical Association caused a tremendous uproar. Here is his answer to critics.

Katy Delay writes of a group of Democrats who are working to revive the "third way" fashion from the 1990s.

Protection or Free Trade, published in 1886, is undoubtedly one of the most significant works ever written on the subject, writes Laurence Vance.

Roderick Long leads The Mises Circle: An Informal Discussion of Anarchy at Mises University 2004.

The body-weight crusaders continue their Quixotic struggle, writes Gard Goldsmith, because they believe in the Marxist myth that the owners of the means of production make people buy things.