December 2009

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Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism?

Are Tea Parties Racist?

Sifting through the anti-Obama-hysteria hysteria

Matt Welch

The Long Wait for FDA-Approved Cancer Sticks

Jacob Sullum
Is Government Action Worse Than Global Warming?

Why policy nihilism may be the only rational response to climate change

Ronald Bailey
The Consumer Is Not the Customer

Both parties promise to preserve one of the central problems of the health care system

Jacob Sullum
How to Get Ahead in Law

Bernard Baran served 22 years on dubious child molestation charges, but the prosecutor who convicted him was promoted to judge.

Radley Balko
Where’s That Inflation?

The monetary base has ballooned, yet inflation remains far off. Or does it?

Veronique de Rugy
Glenn Beck's Experimental Melodrama

The Fox News star terrifies America with his realistic news theater.

Greg Beato

Salvia and Salivation

Is this trip worth a warm mouthful of spit?

Jacob Sullum
The Salvia Ban Wagon

How does terrible drug policy get made? The mad rush to criminalize a psychedelic herb provides a textbook case.

Jacob Sullum
Bernanke’s Philosopher

The Fed chairman is portrayed as a follower of John Maynard Keynes, but his real inspiration is Milton Friedman.

Penn Bullock

Reading People’s Faces

Tattoos, dueling scars, and other rational acquisitions

Katherine Mangu-Ward
Ready for Her Close-Up

Re-examining Ayn Rand’s place in American intellectual and cultural life

Nick Gillespie
Unacknowledged Legislators Impeached

Why isn’t the United States doing more for its poets laureate?

Tim Cavanaugh
Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand?!?

Peter Bagge