POLITICS
Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?
Is it possible to envision Rome experiencing an industrial revolution?
How Medical Licensing Laws Harm Patients and Trap Doctors
Government licensing of doctors is both morally and economically wrong.
It’s Twilight in America
It’s not twilight in America because Obama won. Obama won because it was, sadly, already twilight in America.
Election 2012: Obama the Nihilist vs Romney the Pragmatist
A man such as our current president is far more dangerous to the survival of the United States than any terrorists from the Mideast.
CULTURE
A Not-So Great Society: The Legacy of Lyndon Johnson
The “untouchable” entitlement programs at the heart of the current debt crisis are the outgrowths of the redistributive programs introduced by or greatly expanded during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
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WORLD
Israel’s Fence and the Return to the Barbaric Past
Israel's proposed border fence, a necessary physical separation between a lawful nation and its homicidal neighbors, is a powerful symbol of the political gulf separating the West from the Arab world. When Israel was founded, its inhabitants established the only...
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MARKETS
Rational Selfishness and the Great Wealth Creator
People are most often confused by executives who seem to share attributes of both the inflated and the genuine egoist
Good and Bad Economics
Here are a couple of newspaper headlines following Florida's bout with hurricane disasters: "Storms create lucrative times," St. Petersburg Times (Sept. 30, 2004), and "Economic growth from hurricanes could outweigh costs," USA Today (Sept. 27, 2004). The writers,...
Public Agencies Take Turn Suing Microsoft
Antitrust settlements are a lot like shark chum--they attract predators instead of staving them off. Consider the case of Microsoft. Microsoft chose to settle an antitrust suit brought by the California class action bar to the tune of $1.1 billion dollars in software...
Price Controls, Unemployment, and World Hunger
A recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal told of rising hunger and malnutrition amid chronic agricultural surpluses in India. India is now exporting wheat, and even donating some to Afghanistan, while malnutrition is a growing problem within India itself....
LAW
Guns Save Lives
We almost never hear about these hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns from the media, which will report the killing of a dozen people endlessly around the clock.
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SCI-TECH
Value Created by First Martian Explorer
In my article "Mars: Who Should Own It," I stated: Whoever implements the concept of getting to Mars and living there turns a virtually worthless ball of rock into something of substantial value. Let's check my premises. First: Will Mars, after a successful mission,...
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