Houston Defies the Planners…and Thrives
Development gone berserk? Boiler-factories next door? No. Houston's refusal to zone has brought economic vitality.
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Selling Protection
Just a new twist to an old racket. Uncle Mario's boys would have understood national health insurance.
Imperial Valley Rip-Off
The Interior Department's 160-acre farm limitation amounts to a war against the productive
In the Course of "Human Events"
The memoirs of a famous journalist of the classical liberal tradition.
The Curious Politics of Deregulation
A few words in praise of Edward Kennedy
New Deal Nemesis
It was star-studded, wealthy, professional…and a flop.
Rockefeller's Draconian Drug Law
Four years, $141 million, and 2,000 life sentences later, New York has more drugs and more addicts than ever before.
Trouble on the Range
Vast new regulations on the 87% of Nevada owned by the federal government have the citizens fighting mad. And now the feds are packing guns…
How To Get Converts Left & Right
Political "cross-dressing" is the answer
Inside Branden's Intensive
What goes on during those 40-hour weekends?
Why Didn't Anyone Tell Jimmy?
With much fanfare, Carter ends a travel ban that wasn't.
Wrong Answers? No. Wrong Questions.
Certain "profound" questions lead to nothing but grief
Why Coal Won't Be America's Energy Salvation
Government policies have locked up nearly all western coal…and the odds aren't good for setting it free
Illegal Water
A single resident of Chesapeake, Virginia, battles for the right to choose his own water supply
Foreign Aid Hasn't Worked…And It Never Will
Government aid reinforces the disastrous trend to politicize life in poor countries.
Washington Witch Doctors
Incantations and force will not produce health care.
Does Saccharin Cause Cancer? Do Pigs Fly? Ask Congressman Delaney.
The Delaney Amendment guarantees the production and acceptance of false theorems by the FDA.
If the Press Is Free, Why Aren't We?
Newspapers condemn censorship of ideas while promoting censorship of production.
The Great Plutonium Scare
The "most toxic substance know to man" is far more valuable than gold.
A Day Without Property Rights Is Like a Day Without Sunshine
Anita Bryant and the gay rights movement have both missed the point.
Why We Consent to Oppression
Self-suppression paves the way for political suppression.
Those "Natural" Rights Aren't
Rights are an invention of man, not a law of nature, say the authors.
America's Third Largest Party: Failure!
As minor parties go, the Libertarian Party is a piker.
America's Third Largest Party: Success!
What the Libertarian Party has achieved in only a few years is little short of phenomenal.
UFOs, Bent Spoons, and Alternate Realities
Can the scientific outlook survive in an increasingly pseudo-scientific age?
Non-Intervention: A Libertarian Approach to Defense
We must realize the world is no longer in our control and adapt accordingly.
Wishful Thinking Is No Defense
A political scientist challenges libertarian foreign policy myths
Permissible Defense
Isolationism no more follows from libertarian ideals than does interventionism.
The Conscription Menace Returns
A campaign to reinstitute involuntary servitude has been launched by Congressional "moderates" and "conservatives."
The Myth of the Myth of Mental Illness
Those ingenuous arguments against involuntary hospitalization are flawed.
Hong Kong
An 'impossible anachronism' does a roaring trade in Asia
Survival Preparedness
A step at a time
