The Decline and Fall of Broadcasters' Rights
A tortured reading of the First Amendment has allowed every street-corner crackpot and howling pressure group legal access to private broadcasting facilities.
Features
Individualism: For Whites Only?
A black writer questions the unthinking linkage of blacks and collectivism.
Was Plato a Libertarian?
Despite his reputation as a roaring statist, Plato espoused a surprising number of libertarian principles.
Saving Swedes from Themselves
Having its first nonsocialist government in 43 years hasn't prevented Sweden from drifting further into paternalism.
The President Is Not Our Leader
Should we expect the president to be the leader of the nation, much less provide moral guidance to the world?
Where the Hell Is Pueblo, Colorado?
An obscure federal agency in this Rocky Mountain city offers all you never wanted to know about practically everything.
Fowl Play in the Bahamas
Socialists always say you have to break a few eggs if you're going to make an omelette. But all of them?
Liberate the West Bank
Converting the West Bank to a free-trade zone could replace guns with butter.
Meeting of the (Free) Minds
The Mont Pelerin Society's 1978 gathering in Hong Kong brought news of encouraging intellectual trends.
Slashing Taxes Is Good for What Ails Us
It worked for the French peasants in 1800. It worked for the Italians in the Great Depression. It's working for the Japanese right now.
Public to Private
With tax substitution, you pays your money and takes your choice.
Seizing the Day
The tax revolt is only the first step. Growing antigovernment sentiment offers business an unparalleled opportunity to break the dominance of the State.
S1 in Sheep's Clothing
In the guise of reforming the federal criminal code, this insidious bill creates the complete infrastructure of a totalitarian state.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
OSHA and search warrants
Economics As If SOME People Mattered
Small-is-beautiful gurus have the ear of populists Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown. But their proposals reflect an elitism that scorns the Common Man.
Regulations That Are Killing Us
The FDA efficacy requirements have boosted the costs of drugs, slashed their rate of introduction, and deprived the sick and dying of vital medicines.
Regulation's Fatal Flaw
Bureaucrats who try to peg prices to production costs face an impossible task—because these costs include factors known only to the businessman.
Why Your Bank Can't Keep a Secret
The mislabeled Bank Secrecy Act authorizes massive federal invasion of your financial privacy
Human Rights Hypocrisy
No prominent person mentions the one human right that needs protection so that our other liberties may be safe.
The Politics of Guilt
The affluent, the leisured, the sons and daughters of the captains of industry—why does radical egalitarianism appeal to them?
The New Philosophers Rock France
…young, radical, ex-Maoist—they have seized the intellectual initiative.
The Mailed Fist vs. the Invisible Hand
Three of early socialism's five key thinkers opposed the use of State power.
The First Amendment Under Siege
From left, right, and center, freedom of speech has a host of new attackers.
How Federal Railroad Policy Got Derailed
In Conrail and the 4R Act, Congress has created rolling disasters.
How the Feds Screw Small Business
Regulations that are merely an inconvenience to a large corporation may be a matter of life or death to a small firm.
Every Kid an Entrepreneur
The only way today's youth are going to learn about the free market is to participate.
The New Jim Crow Laws
They sound egalitarian and humane, but these racially "neutral" laws have created an American apartheid.
Debunking Doomsday
Civilizations don't die by exhausting their resources. They die by consuming the institutions that made their vitality possible.
Spiritual Horror
The world's ho-hum response to the Cambodian bloodbath reveals the horrifying subservience of morality to politics.
Confessions of a Washington Reject
A behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre world of Congressional staffs.
A Fairly Modest Proposal
How to get all the benefits of Congress—at just a fraction of the cost.
African Deception
A small German firm is launching rockets from Zaire. The world-wide campaign to discredit it is a fraud. Why it was done reveals some bizarre realities of international power politics.
What's Happening in Quebec
The Parti Quebecois wants to create a "new society". How free would its "free Quebec" be?
How Science Should Deal with Pseudoscience
Ignoring the cultists will not make them go away; scientists should devote time and effort to investigating the pseudoscientists' claims.
The Great Money Hoodwink
In which the forty-third President comes to understand the raison d'être of the Federal Reserve.
Washington Laughs at the Welfare State
A play lampooning England's National Health Service has them rolling in the aisles.
A Few Good Children's Books
...and, as our reviewer discovered, there are just a few.
The Promise and Perils of Gold Clauses
Protect yourself from dollar depreciation by using this new freedom…prudently.
Time for Stocks
If you missed the 1975-1976 bull market, another opportunity is coming up.
Rare Coins: Ten Reasons to Invest
Take advantage of one of the last remaining free markets.
Rare Coins: Reasons for Caution
You will quite probably lose money if you do not have some degree of expertise in numismatics.
Pockets of Free Trade in an Unfree World
Go east young man
Why Silver Will Soar
Silver's fundamentals indicate a rewarding decade for investors.
Are You Wasting Money on Life Insurance?
The "buy term and invest the difference" pitch has taken in many unwary buyers.
How to Draw the Line on Taxes
The incessant growth of taxes can be stopped, and here is the only practical way to do so.
Picking the Right Tax Advisor
What you want is a champion, one who will push the IRS to the full extent of the law.
Who Would Chose Socialism?
The Israeli Kibbutzim provide the acid test for Voluntary Socialism.
