by Keith Lockitch | Sep 2, 2007 | Environment
The root of the opposition to DDT is not science but the environmentalist moral premise that it is wrong for man to “tamper” with nature.
by Walter Williams | Aug 29, 2007 | POLITICS
London’s Times Online recently reported that, according to Vatican sources, Pope Benedict XVI is working on his second encyclical, a doctrinal pronouncement that will condemn tax evasion as “socially unjust.” (See...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 28, 2007 | POLITICS
A whole nation following the tragedy of a mine cave-in in Utah was struck by the further tragedy of another cave-in at the same mine, killing men who had gone underground to try to rescue the miners trapped there. The second tragedy was avoidable — but only if...
by Craig Biddle | Aug 27, 2007 | POLITICS
The Bush administration’s plan to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization is worse than a waste of time: It is an outright evasion of the Iranian assault on America. There is a good reason why the New York City Police Department...
by Elan Journo | Aug 20, 2007 | POLITICS
Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of “diversity.” Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence...
by Ralph R. Reiland | Aug 17, 2007 | POLITICS
Readers of The New York Times got a front-page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy. Hayek...
by Alex Epstein | Aug 16, 2007 | POLITICS
Democrat and Republican candidates for President are debating one another on nearly every issue–but nearly all are united on one thing: America faces a crisis of “income inequality.” The rich are getting richer, the refrain goes, while the poor and...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 14, 2007 | POLITICS
Two recent tragedies — in Minnesota and in Utah — have held the nation’s attention. The implications of these tragedies also deserve attention. Those politicians who are always itching to raise tax rates have seized upon the neglected infrastructure...
by George Reisman | Aug 10, 2007 | Housing
The turmoil in the credit markets now emanating from the collapse of the housing bubble can be understood in the light of the theory of the business cycle developed by Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek.