Media and Culture

If the military was all it took to wipe out terrorists, writes Robert Blackstock, Israel would have long ago shut down the PLO, and Britain would have already made Northern Ireland a vacation mecca.

Whatever direction the stock market may take in the future, its opening day was a time for honest assessment of how the recent terrorist attacks and their aftermath may affect our economic future. 

The opponents of liberty are always ready to shift their ground, no matter how often they are refuted with evidence and argument-a fact that makes the task of showing their errors no less necessary.  

For many years, freedom and liberty have been in great peril in the United States. A speech by George Reisman

CNET's Executive Editor David Coursey claims that we can head off future government intervention if we only do what is needed today.

A journalist's autobiography illustrates everything that's wrong with media reporting. Gregory Bresiger is the reviewer.

This is one of those books that is expected to take the middlebrow world by storm. Daniel Ryan reviews Hardt's and Negri's Marxist tract, Empire.

Charity funded through voluntary contributions is vastly superior to the welfare state. It should stay off the dole. 

Vigilance about co-opted semantics is vital because language mediates thoughts, actions, and hence public debate and policy.

Death duties loot the productive, destroy capital, and bring about a damaging social upheaval. Hans Sennholz explains.