How to Achieve Socialism 02/27/09
America's history and trajectory suggest the threat is real. [Read More] |  by Jacob Hornberger |
What Does "Equal Pay for Equal Work" Mean? 02/25/09
Economic theory and the ethics of property rights shed light on such legislative efforts. [Read More] |  by Wilt Alston |
"Something Must Be Done" 02/23/09
Whether with "stimulus" bills or wars abroad, liberty suffers when the country rushes into ill-thought government "solutions." [Read More] |  by Anthony Gregory |
A Practical Foreign Policy Agenda for Obama 02/20/09
The United States should withdraw -- not just from Iraq, but from its entire Cold-War posture -- and move toward non-intervention, honest diplomacy and free trade. [Read More] |  by Doug Bandow |
Tooth Fairy Economics 02/18/09
The "stimulus" is based on faulty economics, just as economically unsound central planning brought on the crisis in the first place. [Read More] |  by Tom Woods |
Twilight in Afghanistan 02/16/09
The Afghanistan intervention quickly became a nation-building and counterinsurgency exercise all too much like Iraq and Vietnam. For the sake of American wealth and security, the United States should withdraw. [Read More] |  by Philip Giraldi |
Roots of the Banking Crisis 02/13/09
From the subprime meltdown to the collapse of the finance sector, we see the heavy hand of government behind the economic crisis. Only free enterprise can bring stability to banking and financial markets. [Read More] |  by Michael Beitler |
"National Service" and Conscription: A Question of Ownership 02/11/09
Obama wants "universal voluntary service" to the federal government. Some speak more openly about bringing back the draft. But conscription denies self-ownership, the bedrock of a free society.
[Read More] |  by William Norman Grigg |
The Myth of the Laissez-Faire Bush Years 02/09/09
George W. Bush, like Herbert Hoover and others before him, is associated with free enterprise although he practiced the opposite. And now America suffers from the confusion. [Read More] |  by Anthony Gregory |
The First Hundred Days 02/05/09
There is much chatter about how the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration might inspire Obama in his approach to the economy. Given the record of the early New Deal, let's hope not. [Read More] |  by Serenity Wang |
Time for a Defense Policy that Defends America 02/02/09
The United States maintains the costliest defense policy on earth, pursuing one bloody foreign conflict after another, creating enemies and making the nation less safe. We must restore the Founders' vision of a policy that defends the country, encourages commercial and civil exchange between peoples, and limits the government's political and military interventions into other nations' affairs. [Read More] |  by Doug Bandow |