It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government in the economy, first by the Physiocrats in France, who coined the term...
If there is an optimistic aspect of preferential doctrines, it is that they may eventually make so many Americans so sick of hearing of group labels and percentages that the idea of judging each indiv...
Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerl...
Epithets like fascist and imperialist stooge became common currency, along with unbridled expressions of tribal chauvinism.
British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71
At various times and places, particular individuals have argued that existing tax rates are so high that the government could collect more tax revenues if it lowered those tax rates, because the chang...
As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: The rich get richer, and the poor have children. In
lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as "simplistic" by those who do not want to accept an...
That does not distinguish Germans from Europeans in general—or from human beings in general, when it comes to vile or vicious things being said or done to any number of ethnic or other minorities in c...
Teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance.
Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth its incremental costs. Accordingly, studies of government-im...
What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the...
The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. Equal opportunity now means preferential treatment. Voting rights now include preferential...
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about social justice all you want. But what death...
The intelligentsia in the media can decide what to emphasize, what to downplay and what to ignore entirely when it comes to race. These may be individual choices, rather than a conspiracy, but individ...
The government is indeed an institution, but the market is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his o...
That some leader dangerous to the basic institutions of American society would arise, Lincoln thought inevitable. Safeguarding these institutions would require a public sufficiently united, sufficient...
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?