“Laissez Fair”: R.I.P.?
Laissez Faire Books, one of libertarians’ major ways of identifying and acquiring good things to read, announced on Oct. 13 that it was going out …
Laissez Faire Books, one of libertarians’ major ways of identifying and acquiring good things to read, announced on Oct. 13 that it was going out …
When asked whether I believe in God, I sometimes reply, “Yes – many gods. There’s Zeus (Jupiter), and his nagging wife Hera, and a huge …
The militant poet Gil-Scott Heron famously said that “the revolution will not be televised.” But apparently it does have a soundtrack. Marx has now come …
Some people leaf through books of history, trying to see whether they are interested in the subject or the style. Others flip immediately to the …
Last June, more than three years after declaring “mission accomplished” in Iraq, President Bush made a secret flight to Baghdad to meet the new Iraqi …
Now that the election is past, the press has moved its focus from why Bill Clinton should be elected to what a wonderful human being …
I last saw Bill Bradford on Dec. 7, 2005, the night before he died. I had not seen him since May, when he had come …
Was Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant, or a cunning chameleon? A believer, or a heretic? A hard-headed entrepreneur, or an opportunistic privateer? A devoted …
I once had a meal with a man who had been a Republican operative. He was lamenting the factionalism within that part)’, and as an …
Health care and the technologies that support it are of growing concern to most Americans. Until recently, I was something of an exception. I lead …