Category: Reflections

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration can be blamed for many sins: a prolonged depression, the creation of a federal welfare state that fostered dependence, establishment of …

Madeleine Cosman (1937-2006) died in San Diego Count)’, Calif., on March 2, of complications of scleroderma. She was a forceful spokesman for conservative and libertarian …

Those of us who recall exposes of the historic financial acumen of the Roman Catholic Church remain puzzled why it allowed a pope to stay·in …

Harry Browne (1933- 2006), twice presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, died on March 1 at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He had fought Lou …

The United States, with only 4% of global petroleum reserves, uses fully 25% of the world’s petroleum each year. That imbalance translates into approximately $250,000 …

A prominent historian, David Irving, has been arrested in Austria. He’s an Englishman but they grabbed him as he happened to be passing through the …

Michael Tanner a Cato health care expert, writes: “Because cancer is a slow-moving and expensive disease to treat, it is not cost-effective under socialized medicine …

Recalling the statistic that the number of stockholders in America exceeds the number of employees (allowing for overlap), consider the great political achievement of Eliot …

I signed a lease on a new apartment the other day and noticed a clause that wasn’t in any of my previous, pre-Kelo v. New …

Although the United States is often portrayed as an ecological villain for declining to sign the fabled Kyoto treaty, a British think tank reports that …