Julian Assange Extradition Decision the Latest Blow to Freedom of the Press
Either everybody gets to enjoy journalistic freedom, or it will turn into glorified public relations work for the powers-that-be.
Nobel Prize
Natural Experiments Make the Case for Liberty
One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics inadvertently created a pro-liberty methodology.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Bans Private Businesses From Mandating Vaccines for Workers
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Professor Elinor 'Lin' Ostrom
Ostrom was best known for her studies of how local groups manage natural resources.
Unlimited Growth and Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize
Paul Romer overturns limits-to-growth nonsense, and William Nordhaus projects climate change damages.
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz, Hugo Chavez, and the Return of Socialism: Podcast
Journalist and Soho Forum co-founder Gene Epstein on economists' romance with strongmen and his upcoming debate with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara.
V.S. Naipaul: 'Terrorists Can Fly a Plane, But What They Can't Do Is Build a Plane'
The Nobel laureate had a brilliant, sadly ignored insight that would have short-circuited the worst cultural and political reactions of the past 17 years.
The Peace Prize Winner Who Waged War
In 2009, Barack Obama acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize honor was aspirational. In 2017, it still is.
Future Nobel Laureate Warns: The Antichrist Is Coming!
Friday A/V Club: The Devil and Bob Dylan
'Bob Dylan Is the Shakespeare of Our Time'—Penn Jillette on the Nobel Prize Winner
Dylan has constantly changed, not out of some sense of desperate need to stay current or hip but out of a deep urge to explore himself and the world around him.
The Great Escape from Poverty
Newly minted economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton worries crony capitalism will kill off economic growth.
Documenting Humanity's Great Escape from Abject Poverty: Angus Deaton
The Economics Nobel Laureate worries that crony capitalism will kill off economic growth
Angus Deaton: 2015 Economics Nobel Laureate
"We've seen a remarkable decrease over the past 20 years, and I do forecast that will continue."
Nobel Peace Prize: In Tunisia Alone Is the "Arab Spring" Still Green
Here's hoping that the award will help safeguard Tunisia's nascent democracy.
Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
It's Nobel Prize Season Again!
Why Israel Kirzner should win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
When Nobel Peace Laureates Meet
Malala Yousafzai tells Barack Obama what his drones are doing.
Taste Is Personal: A Primer in Nobel Prize-Winning Literature
The subjective theory of value in action.
White House Was Angered by Obama's Peace Prize, Which Still Haunts the Nobel Committee
Some committee members accused of being fawning, starstruck.
NSA Whistle-Blower Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Nominated by two Norwegian politicians
Nobel-Winning Economist Dale Mortensen Dies at 74
Studied supply and demand in the job market
Nobel Laureates Urge Putin to Free Greenpeace Activists
30 detainees face up to 15 years in prison if convicted
Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded To Three Americans For Their Work on Asset Prices
Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller
Was the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chemical Weapons Inspectors an Admission That Awarding Barack Obama Was a Mistake?
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize laureate helped prevent a war agitated for by the 2009 laureate
Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
Malala Yousafzai: Haven't Done Enough to Deserve Nobel Peace Prize
If a certain previous winner had such self-awareness
Nobel Prize For Physics Awarded To Higgs and Englert
For their work on the Higgs boson
Dennis Rodman Says He Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea Outreach
Well, if they gave Obama one...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Fogel Dead at 86
Renowned economic historian known for using quantitative analysis to study history
Crick's Nobel Prize Sells for $2.3 Million
Award given to discoverer of DNA goes to head of biomedical firm