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The Free Market 24, no. 2 (February 2004)   I write this dutifully and joylessly in the manner of someone taking out the garbage or performing some other unpleasant task that’s been done before but which must be done once more. The Republicans have done it again. With their new Medicare bill, they’ve made government even bigger. This is not new to

Also as part of the conference this weekend, we also celebrate Lew Rockwell’s 60th birthday. Sto lat! . Lew runs the best think tank in the country which has the best economics site in the world . His little hobby— LewRockwell.com —has turned into the best political site in the world. I say that as someone who was a reader of it before I was a

The Free Market 19, no. 10 (October 2001)   The single greatest obstacle to creating a free society is government’s control over education. Government dictates that children attend a school, and taxpayers pay enormous sums to subsidize “free” government schools. The frightening result is that the vast majority of citizens--nearly 90 percent--end

The Free Market 9, no. 7 (July 1991) Dear Sir: I noticed the following headline in the New York Times recently: “Earnings Plunge at IBM—Quarterly Sales Fall Across Most of Line.” Another Times story reports that IBM “has been pushed out of the personal computer and software spotlight by its software partner, the Microsoft corporation.” A third

On Tuesday, the legal scholars on the New York Times editorial board accused the Supreme Court of doing “violence against the constitution” by failing to define rape as “commerce” subject to regulation under the interstate commerce clause. Since four dissenting justices agreed with them, we are left with the question: what scares you more: madness

The Firestone/Ford tire debacle will likely serve to bolster one of the most widely accepted and pernicious economic fallacies. According to this fallacy, the free market is unique among institutions, in that its profit motive encourages businesses to increase profits by cutting costs at the expense of the public. Thus, we can expect to hear that

“Further evidence of some basic affinity between communism and modern liberalism is the latter’s frequent coverups and apologies for the former.” As zebras are fascinated by lions, libertarians are fascinated by communists, their polar opposites and sworn enemies for the last 150 years. If one believes that society should function with an absolute

“The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself.”  These famous words caught my ear on Sunday thanks to Brian Lamb.  While flipping channels searching for the football game, I paused on C-SPAN where Brian had cranked up FDR’s first, and, unfortunately, not last inaugural address.    This is everybody’s favorite President?  I haven’t heard such

President Bush has proposed a $1.6 trillion tax cut. I would like to suggest that the president modify his tax proposal. He should increase the size of his tax cut to $21 trillion. Well, it’s not really a $21 trillion tax cut. It’s a $2.1 trillion tax cut. I got the $21 trillion figure by projecting it for ten years, just as Bush does with his. I

The online edition of The New York Times may be free, but that doesn’t mean it’s not costly.  Reading a Sunday column  by Paul Krugman, who claims to be an economist, is accomplished only at the risk of filling one’s head with all kinds of economic nonsense.  I had heard Krugman was an economist, but after reading his article, I actually had to go