If Swedes Ruled the World
It seems to me that if we put the Swedes in charge, the situation in Palestine would clear up of its own accord. Look at …
It seems to me that if we put the Swedes in charge, the situation in Palestine would clear up of its own accord. Look at …
Michael Diven, my local representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, raised a few eyebrows around town with his idea of a trip to Cuba to check …
On Jan. 23, Robert Nozick died of stomach cancer. He was 63. With the publication of Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974, Nozick singlehandedly made …
Criminal penalties are not prices. Occasionally the idea surfaces that the schedule of penalties for felonies and misdemeanors is a price list. By implication, people …
How many people who believe that Andrea Yates killed her children because she is insane would stop believing it if they learned, say, that she …
Back in a different era – one that seems touchingly innocent now – people used to argue, sometimes almost sincerely, about whether the First Amendment …
ABC’s attempt to replace its late-night “news” show Nightline with David Letterman’s comedy show pleased me enormously in every possible way. First, it demonstrated how …
Each year, the Super Bowl features some of the most interesting (and expensive) advertising on television. This year, however, viewers were subjected to numerous annoying …
The John Locke Foundation reports that North Carolina is using some of its tobacco lawsuit money to subsidize a tobacco processing facility in Nash County. …
Contrary to what you hear from just about every politician and every pundit, the Enron collapse suggests that less regulation might make future disasters of …