Category: Reflections

Many postmortems of Super Tuesday are citing Ron Paul’s weak showing as proof that Americans are “not ready for libertarianism.” Others are blaming the media …

Whatever you think of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president (and I don’t think very much of it), it has had one remarkable feature: his TV …

The boneheaded economic stimulus package authored by the president and forwarded by the Democratic Congress aims to push the federal government deeper into debt in …

Early January saw Clinton and McCain win their respective party primaries in New Hampshire; but a more important development for some libertarians came a few …

Presidential campaigning started much earlier than usual – not just several months or even a year before the election but a full 15 months. To …

Thirty seconds on Google at any time in the past several months would have revealed to any interested party the gist of James Kirchick’s Jan. …

How oft we see the law of unintended consequences bite statists in their butts. A recent illustration is the brouhaha about English-only requirements on the …

If you’re going to write a biography of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), you have your work cut out for you. You face a mountain of …

I’m quite certain that Americans are tired of hearing about the Hollywood writers’ strike. Yeah, they know there are writers behind the crap they watch …

Strangely, Rudy Giuliani maintains a reputation in some quarters as libertarian-friendly on the social issues – especially those related to “getting government out of the …