by George Reisman | Mar 31, 2006 | Environment
Pointing guns at people in the name of some higher collective good, and prohibiting them from achieving their own good. That’s socialism. That’s environmentalism.
by Glenn Woiceshyn | Mar 31, 2006 | Healthcare, POLITICS
The failure of Canada’s experiment with socialist medicine is readily apparent: long waiting lists and wait times for specialized services, conveyor-belt treatment for routine services, chronic shortages of family doctors and hospital beds, gross inefficiencies,... by Debi Ghate | Mar 30, 2006 | Education
If NYU seriously believed that there were security risks involved, they ought to have provided sufficient security.
by Edwin Feulner | Mar 29, 2006 | POLITICS
Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the term “United Nations” in 1942, when an alliance of democracies (with the help of the Soviet Union) was fighting the totalitarian Axis powers. FDR dreamed of a post-war world in which free people would help promote peace and... by George Reisman | Mar 28, 2006 | Environment
The question of how to deal with climate change, in turn, is subsumed by the broader question of how should human beings deal with physical reality in meeting their needs and wants.
by Daniel Pipes | Mar 28, 2006 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
As Israelis go to the polls, not one of the leading parties offers the option of winning the war against the Palestinian Arabs. It’s a striking and dangerous lacuna. First, some background. Wars are won, the historical record shows, when one side feels compelled... by Dr Michael Hurd | Mar 27, 2006 | Immigration, POLITICS
There are so many platitudes about immigration–some cloaked in sincerity, and others completely meaningless. The truth really isn’t that complicated. The answer is not open immigration, or a closed society. The answer is a free society. A free society is... by Ralph R. Reiland | Mar 26, 2006 | Europe, POLITICS
The students are rioting in Paris, again, and the streets of Dublin are quiet. The dissimilarity flows from the differences in the way the political-economic systems are run in France and Ireland. In France’s overly-planned, overly-socialist economy, the... by George Reisman | Mar 25, 2006 | Environment
An unjustified death-penalty verdict against modern Industrial Civilization and most of the human race.