Features
Winning at Commodities
If you have the capital and the constitution, here's a guide to commodity systems and advisors.
Money Really Matters
Prices have been increasing faster than the money supply-but a closer look at the data proves that Milton Friedman was right all along.
Protect Your Cache
The hows and whys of achieving financial privacy.
What Stops Inflation?
Not WIN buttons and not wage/price controls. But history does show ways to do it.
Shooting Down the Conspiracy Theory
The House Assassinations Committee and the Warren Commission are both wrong. There is no need to invoke a conspiracy to explain what happened in Dealey Plaza. A historian—and eyewitness—recreates the events of November 22, 1963.
Environmental Activists Capture Washington
Environmental zealots have lost the battle at the polls-but are winning the war as governmental bureaucrats.
Surviving the Blackboard Jungle
Classrooms have become a battleground, and teachers' only weapon is to go on strike-inside the classroom.
Boom Times in Casuistry 101
Or why future government officials might be found boning up on sophistic ethics
Right to Work
What is it? Who has it?
No More Doomsday
"Limits to growth" is a myth-but there are still plenty of good reasons for going into space.
Free Space!
If there's one thing to be learned from the history of technology, it's that government support entails hidden perils. We can-and should-develop space without government "help."
Gateway to Space
An international space freeport is the goal of a promising partnership between entrepreneurs and the Third World.
The Paradox of Voting
Amidst all the other problems of collective decisionmaking, the voting process itself permits logical inconsistencies
Why the Schools Went Public
In the early 1800s, private schools were thriving. Then a small group of wealthy intellectuals decided education must be socialized. And in 40 years they had largely accomplished their goal. Here-for the first time-is the story of their campaign.
The Wisdom of Disaster
Maybe they do know what they're doing in Washington...
Regulation of the Truckers, by the Truckers, for the Truckers
ICC regulation benefits the trucking industry, but every dollar gained by the industry costs consumers thirty.
The Rise and Fall of the Loco-Focos
An anti-monopoly, hard-money movement enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the 1830s.
They Don't Make 'em Like They Use To
The discriminating viewer's guide to romantic films
The Great 1979 Social Security Heist
Taxes hikes 31%. Benefits slashed 20%. Happy New Year.
Unchain the Electronic Media!
A well-known broadcast journalist charges the Federal Communications Commission with subverting the First Amendment.
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.
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.
