Category: Reflections

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 …

Can I be alone in thinking that the plodding pace of the prosecution of Saddam Hussein, imprisoned for over two years now, reflects a reluctance …

On the Saturday Show (Jan. 21), NPR commentator John Ydstie, in a statement called “Lobbying Reform: Not Likely!”, talked about the provisions of the various …

The cartoon crisis brings out a blind spot in libertarians. The best example is Virginia Postrel’s blog, with which I generally agree. But while embassies …

When a challenge is made to the recipient of a subsidy, or the petitioner for one – “Why should you get a subsidy?” – the …

In Cindy Sheehan, my gener- ation finally has its own Hanoi Jane. Whether in Crawford camping out in a ditch with a bunch of hippies, …

goods and people around the world can be disruptive to settled ways of operating, especially in poorer countries with poorly developed financial and service sectors …

The implicit theme of the revelations about the fakery of authors J.T. LeRoy and James Frey is that publishers are easily deceived by stories they …

The recent passing of Arthur Seldon merits more than summary notice. Seldon was one of the leading libertarian voices in the 20th century. Though hardly …