by Walter Williams | Jun 2, 2007 | Healthcare, POLITICS
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with ensuring that only safe and effective drugs are marketed. Such a task is highly complex and fraught with difficulties. Consumers, the ostensible beneficiaries, should examine and question the incentive...
by Lisa VanDamme | Jun 1, 2007 | Education, POLITICS
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (or NAEP), the average high school student is an incompetent writer. To evaluate their writing ability, testers asked high school juniors to write a paragraph based on notes they were given about a haunted...
by Thomas A. Bowden | May 31, 2007 | Psychology & Living, Religion
If you have a duty to go on living, despite your better judgment, then your life does not belong to you, and you exist by permission, not by right.
by Yaron Brook | May 30, 2007 | Business
It is a minority of “activist” shareholders–together with anti-business politicians–who are shrieking about “outrageous” CEO pay packages.
by Lisa VanDamme | May 29, 2007 | Education, POLITICS
In my recent article “The Failure of Field Trips,” I explained what is wrong with traditional school outings. The typical field trip is irrelevant to the students’ education, either because they have been unprepared to appreciate it by their...
by Walter Williams | May 28, 2007 | POLITICS
What should our response be if terrorists set off a nuclear explosion, or some other weapon of mass destruction, in one of our cities? I put this question to Professor Victor Hanson, senior research fellow at Stanford University’s prestigious Hoover Institution,...
by John Stossel | May 27, 2007 | POLITICS
Some people hate me because I defend free markets. Once someone accosted me on a New York City street and said, “I hope you die soon.” Why the hostility to commerce? What could be more benign than the freedom to trade with whomever you wish? I suspect...
by David Holcberg | May 26, 2007 | POLITICS
Last Wednesday the House of Representatives passed legislation instituting penalties of up to $150 million for companies and up to $2 million and 10 years’ imprisonment for individuals found guilty of gasoline “price gouging.” But the real gouger...
by Alex Epstein | May 24, 2007 | POLITICS
With gasoline prices at their highest point in recent years, the knee-jerk response of many is to call for the government to “do something” to force prices lower. But no matter what the price of gasoline is, such calls are wrong. All market fluctuations in...