Resilience vs. Anticipation
The West is resilient and can roll with the shocks. The East copes through anticipation, the static planning that assumes perfect foresight.
Month: August 1997
Polluted Science
New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulatory power grab?
Thy Neighbor's Keeper
Can private charities replace tax-funded welfare? A program in one Maryland county suggests the challenges facing church-based efforts to help welfae mothers become self-sufficient.
Taxing Times
Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.
The Embarassment of Riches
For today's independent artists, integrity can be financially rewarding. Can punk rock and alternative comics make peace with entrepreneurial capitalism?
Letters
Employment flaws, healthy perspective
Courting Trouble
Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.
