by Keith Lockitch | May 23, 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 George Reisman | May 15, 2007 | CULTURE
Almost all of the writers, reporters, and editors of the paper come from the same educational mold and see practically everything through a far-left prism, with the result that The Times’ reporting is thoroughly slanted to the left.
by Walter Williams | May 15, 2007 | Guns, POLITICS
Last week, Japan pledged $100 million in grants to fight global climate change. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s major leader in the struggle against climate change. The World Conservation Union has recently...
by John Stossel | May 14, 2007 | POLITICS
The federal government keeps growing, as I pointed out last week, but the Bush administration has cut tax rates a few times since 2001. How can that be? The answer is simple: deficit spending. Some Republicans argue that deficits don’t matter; that if you cut...
by George Reisman | May 13, 2007 | Education
It is ironic that in the present case, the victims of this anti-capitalistic attitude are colleges and universities. What is ironic is that they systematically instill such anti-capitalistic attitudes in practically every course they offer.
by John Stossel | May 10, 2007 | POLITICS
Bill Clinton once declared, “The era of big government is over.” Both Republicans and Democrats applauded. What a joke. Government grew under Clinton, and grew even faster under his successor. Government is so big today that more than half the population...
by Walter Williams | May 9, 2007 | POLITICS, Price Controls
The first fundamental law of demand postulates that the lower the price of something, the more will be demanded, and the higher the price, the less will be demanded. To my knowledge, there are no known exceptions to the law of demand. That was until last fall when 650...
by George Reisman | May 8, 2007 | Environment
Such a life of impoverishment is a life that the environmentalists who are striving to bring it about certainly deserve to achieve—but just for themselves, not for anyone else.
by Nicholas Provenzo | May 8, 2007 | Education, POLITICS
The lecture by Dr. John Lewis last month on Islamic totalitarianism at George Mason University was one of the most surreal public experiences I have witnessed in all my years as an activist and advocate. It evidenced in no uncertain terms that rationality and common...