Legal System

California's Third World-style energy crisis is a symptom of a deeper problem: pervasive economic ignorance that starts at the top. Thomas DiLorenzo reports.

There was a time when the word reform described a process of renewal, of change, and of taking new steps towards correcting a problem. With the rise of campaign finance reform, that is no longer the case.

In a free market, it is wholly unwarranted. Brad Edmonds considers three cases.

Douglas Carey explains economic anomalies such as electricity shortages, flight delays, and overcrowded roads.

What was his crime? To bring consumers oil, he violated laws that should not exist in the first place. Clinton was right to pardon him.

History frowns upon the belief that government protects children's rights, and yet that is precisely the claim that undergirds child labor laws, now enforced in most parts of the world. Hardly anyone dares question their existence, much less the conventional history of child labor, no matter how many children and families continue to be victimized by government regulation of labor.

Production and price controls, not deregulation, are the cause of the state's energy miseries, writes George Reisman.

The argument that democracy is better than revolution because it provides for "peaceful change" doesn't hold up to logical scrutiny, writes Murray Rothbard in this unpublished piece (1959)

Is the recent election "clear evidence" that your vote counts? Not at all, say two economists. It shows precisely the opposite.

Stealing elections is a sign and symbol of how little regard the left has for the rules the undergird a free society, says Thomas DiLorenzo