Category: Features

There are two varieties of libertarian theory current today. The difference between the two libertarianisms lies in their reason for advocating liberty. The libertarian moralist …

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 …

Forty years ago this month, on January 30-31, 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regular army forces launched the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam. U.S. …

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 …

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 …

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 …