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The State has monopolized all authority, giving it essentially unlimited power to make things worse by Charles Hugh-Smith I recently...

The Secular City seems to have triumphed over the City of God by Patrick J. Buchanan  “To govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim...

The Trojan Horse of Cooperative Federalism By MARIO LOYOLA For decades, Democrats and Republicans alike have invested heavily in gove...

Mobility, talent and capital By Reuven Brenner  Human creative sparks are always there, probably randomly distributed around the wo...

Uniqueness of the Scottish miracle by Reuven Brenner  The Scottish lesson, rarely mentioned in history books, shows what else can b...

The myth of government aid By Reuven Brenner  Historians and economists, most heavily subsidized, are very good at creating and per...

Facts behind miracles By Reuven Brenner  Politicians and economists promise growth, prosperity and higher standards of living. What ...

You cannot make the poor richer by making the rich poorer by  Richard A. Epstein   One month into the second term of the Obama admini...

The economist who dared to predict Europe's mess, and was fired for it, says there is much more pain to come By  BRIAN M. CARNEY ...

Incredible confusions Part 1: ‘Positive Money’ and the fallacy of the need for a state money producer I am usually inclined to encoura...

As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned By Angelo Codevilla On January 1...

The mass-mind prefers to grovel at the feet of those who promise them a first class ticket to the land of plenty by James E. Miller T...

Dashed expectations crimped even some of the most innovative corners of the economy By Elliot Blair Smith  After being dismissed from...

It is not likely that psychiatrists could have prevented the massacre BY THEODORE DALRYMPLE The horrific massacre of the innocents in ...

A good summary of the problems that the U.S. economy is currently facing by Michael Palmer What a year 2012 has been!   The mains...

If you want proof that human beings are incapable of learning from history, the new Egyptian constitution is exhibit A By Bill Frezza ...

The “Master Spirit” Takes Charge By Thomas F. Bertonneau In his monumental  Experiment in Autobiography  (1934), the English novelist...

Giving Europe What It Needs But Does Not Want by George Handlery The current American administration has made an announcement that is...