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Randall G. Holcombe

One by-product of the Paris terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo was an outpouring of support for freedom of speech.

Benjamin M. Wiegold

Some music aficionados are complaining that the market's efforts to better deliver what people want are encouraging "bad music." In truth, music markets are providing more opportunities for the making of new music than ever before.

Ryan McMaken

The film’s most redeeming quality can be found in the fact that it makes the US intelligence apparatus look useless and inept.

Ryan McMaken

Ridley Scott's new sword-and-sandal epic Exodus: Gods and Kings is jam-packed with political messages and imagery. Unfortunately, none of it ever gels into an interesting movie involving interesting characters.

Dale Steinreich

Christmas is the most pro-capitalist of all holidays because its worldly joys are based on private property, voluntary exchange, and mutual benefit. It's also one of the least political of all major holidays.

Ryan McMaken

Ebenezer Scrooge is guilty of no crime, but he is a bad economist. This is demonstrated by Scrooge's ignorance about the subjective nature of value, and by his insistence that he is being robbed by his clerk who negotiates a day off.

Christopher Westley

Writing in Time magazine this week, Darlena Cunha compares the Ferguson riots of today — as well as the Los Angeles riots of 1992 — to the Boston Tea Party, arguing that such events are similar, well within the American tradition of social change.