Category: Features

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 …

During the Capitol Hill budget debates, many spectators must have found the use of the term”earmarking” somewhat strange. What does it have to do with …

General Thomas Power, commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command from 1957 to 1964 and Director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff from …

Who won America’s wars? The libertarian answer is that the state won them because, as Randolph Bourne said in World War I, “War is the …

I’m often asked by inquisitive colleagues who are familiar with my views, “So, what’s the libertarian position on _ _ ?” Since a question like …

Libertarian ideas are based in part on moral principles, in part on economic or “praxeological” principles – ideas about the nature of human choice and …

Do the letters AHA now stand (in the words of Robert Shibley) for American Hypocrites Association, rather than American Historical Association? Apparently they do. In …

Like many libertarians attracted to transportation policy –  Reason founder Robert Poole comes to mind – I love trains, especially passenger trains. So Amtrak is …

“Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs.” That was the name of the conference held in Seattle on Dec. 1 and 2, 2005. Washington is …

Protection of personal property rights has always posed a problem: How does the owner of property persuade a non-owner to honor his right to that …