Category: Reflections

How did the Gulf oil disaster happen? What does it mean, and what should be our petroleum policy be in the future? The blame for …

In May 2004, the price of a house in my hometown was going up by about 1% each month. At the time, my wife and …

Libertarian businessman Peter Schiff recently suffered a dismal loss in the Republican primary for senator in Connecticut, after a heroic run in which he gathered …

Ultra marathons are endurance- defying races of 50 or 100 miles. One of the toughest and most (in)famous of these races starts in Death Valley …

As we’re going to press for this issue, there’s a lively debate among economists about whether the United States is more likely to face deflation …

This is chapter 1,559,363 in the long-running serial, “Why Don’t the Media Know What All the Rest of Us Do?” On July 17, there was …

Unlike Hillary Clinton, I’ve been a lifelong Yankee fan. I have on my wall a poster with the signatures of every Yankee member of the …

Amid much hoopla, the Obama-backed financial regulation bill (“Finreg”) finally passed Congress and was signed into law by a gloating president. Supposedly, it was crafted …

It just occurred to me that the same type of people who want national healthcare prefer drinking bottled water. Why do they trust the government …

The 2010 November elections are going to be very important, and I believe that libertarians should vote for the Republican rather than the Libertarian Party. …