The Environment

I’m sitting here in the sweltering heat, wondering why the air conditioner at the Mises Institute is not being fixed after a full week of wai

The rhetoric of environmentalism, writes Ronald Hamowy, consistently displays an ignorance and simple-mindedness that is breathtaking.

Vedran Vuk says that changing one law can prevent the city's continued decline and fall of New Orleans. The edict that must be removed is the monopoly on gambling held by Harrah's casino.

Environmentalists, it seems, have their own version of the Evenly Rotating Economy (ERE), writes Andrew Packer.

Reading the thread on global warming below, I see a common mistake that pops up in a lot of arguments at the intersection of science and policy.

Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of th

The flag is Green now, instead of Red. And the lyrics are different. But the tune is still the same old tune.

An individual kills someone—for money, out of jealousy, as an act of revenge, or because he doesn’t like his victim’s looks.

In a manner reminiscent of witch doctors urging primitive people to sacrifice their sheep and goats in order to mollify the wrath of the gods, toda

A front-page story in today’s [March