Category: Features

My book, The Myth of Mental Illness, was published in 1961. Its message is stated unambiguously in the title: Mental illness is a fiction, a …

An annoying tic in media coverage of wartime America is the equivocation of the sudden surge of interest in working for the federal government with …

Because ours is an age of specialization, we expect specialists to be particularly knowledgeable about their areas of expertise and, for other matters, rely on …

This is a crazy world. And I’m not just talking about crazies from the Middle East, who figure that the way to pursue their religion …

A very good friend of mine, who happens to be a high school senior, a 4.0 student, a high scorer on the SAT, a champion …

Our anarchist party won the school election! It was the autumn term 1988 at my school- we were about 16 at the time – in …

In “Open Minds, Closed Borders,” (January) Ken Schoolland, a university professor of economics and political science, offers the textbook libertarian case for open immigration. It …

On a night late in 1969, Felicia Bernstein stood up beside the baby grand in her apartment overlooking Central Park and introduced some Black Panthers …

My apartment became famous for a day several years ago, when it appeared at the top of the front page of the New York Times’ …

Does collective expression of support for individual liberty make any sense? Some people seem to think it does. The Walk for Capitalism, which took place …