Economics
The Impossible Dream of Energy Independence
Energy Analyst Robert Bryce Explains Why Trying to Make All Our Own Power is a Foolish Idea
A 10-Year Energy Plan?
Techno-optimistic environmentalists still stuck with old-fashioned, top-down thinking.
The Virtues of Conspicuous Giving
How self-righteous, empty-headed celebrities promote private charity
Now Playing at Reason.tv with Drew Carey: Living Large
Are middle-class Americans doing well--or barely getting by?
Bill Gates Aims to Save Africa
Forget Bono. The world's richest man gives away hundreds of millions to foster a new Green Revolution.
Now Playing at Reason.tv: Evolutionary Economics and the Google Theory of Peace
Mind of the Market author Michael Shermer on Darwin, capitalism, and the future of politics
Michael Shermer: Evolutionary Economics and the Google Theory of Peace
The author of the new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics talks about Darwin, free markets, his "Google theory of peace"--and why it's tough to covince conservatives about evolution and left-wingers about capitalism.