Category: Features

What I hope to accomplish tonight is to challenge your thinking about the modern freedom movement. I believe the freedom movement has been its own …

Last summer, when the Supreme Court declared in Kelo v. New London that states may condemn private property and transfer it to developers and businesses …

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now [i.e., under …

The Great Depression, 1929-1941, was two distinct periods in U.S. economic history. First came the Great Contraction, 1929-1933, during which prices fell 8% per year, …

Fictional histories have great potential to grip the imagination. Set against the backdrop of real events, they can demonstrate the way in which only one …

In the half-century since the idea of vouchers in education as put forward it has significantly influenced reform efforts in education and elsewhere. The essential …

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Shadyside Hospital, where I spent some time last year being treated for pneumonia, gets five stars – the highest …

Just over a decade ago, in the British university where I was studying, some students did not know where India was. Some thought that it …

Dwarfing their chairs and stools in the broad hallways of the Polish Ministry of Finance sat fat old women with moustaches. Each of them edged …

I bet against China once. I came to regret it. It was the first piece I wrote for Liberty, printed in the March 1990 issue. …