Sheldon Richman

• The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore (October 2009)
  
  
• Obama’s Tax on the Middle Class (October 2009)
  
  
• Exit Afghanistan and Leave iran Alone (October 2009)
  
  
• A Modest Health-Care Proposal (September 2009)
  
  
• Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions
  (September 2009)
  
  
• What Ted Kennedy Never Learned (August 2009)
  
  
• When Will the Health-Care Debate Start? (August 2009)
  
  
• Obama’s Health-Care Snake Oil (August 2009)
  
  
• Still Meddling After All These Years (July 2009)
  
  
• What We Spend on Health Care Is None of the Government’s Business
  (July 2009)
  
  
• The Fatal Conceit of Health-Care Reformers (July 2009)
  
  
• A New Stimulus? Washington Never Learns (July 2009)
  
  
• Blame Republicans for Big Government (June 2009)
  
  
• Obama the Health-Care Reformer Should Grow Up (June 2009)
  
  
• Shut Up about Iran (June 2009)
  
  
• Welcome to Post Office Health Care (June 2009)
  
  
• Terrorism Is a Crime (June 2009)
  
  
• Bipartisan “Stimulus” Hypocrisy (May 2009)
  
  
• Obama’s Betrayals (May 2009)
  
  
• Obama’s Empire (May 2009)
  
  
• Liberty Creates Order (May 2009)
  
  
• Hope Is No Substitute for Theory (April 2009)
  
  
• Government Is the Systemic Risk (April 2009)
  
  
• End the Cuban Embargo! (April 2009)
  
  
• Clueless Obama (April 2009)
  
  
• Taxation with Misrepresentation (April 2009)
  
  
• Ending the Drug War Would End the Violence (April 2009)
  
  
• The Madoff Scandal Exposes Government Failure (March 2009)
  
  
• China: Don’t Buy Government Bonds! (March 2009)
  
  
• Blame Republicans for Big Government (March 2009)
  
  
• The Wizards of Washington (February 2009)
  
  
• Obama’s Uninformed Optimism (February 2009)
  
  
• President Obama, What About Tomorrow? (February 2009)
  
  
• Bipartisan “Stimulus” Nonsense (February 2009)
  
  
• Don’t “Compromise” on the Bogus Stimulus Bill (February 2009)
  
  
• What Greenspan Missed (January 2009)
  
  
• Hope for Economic Wisdom (January 2009)
  
  
• The Peaceful Transfer of Violent Power (January 2009)
  
  
• Stimulating Consumption Won’t Help Economy (January 2009)
  
  
• Government Can’t Really Stimulate the Economy (January 2009)
  
  
• Government Failure (December 2008)
  
  
• Madoff Scandal Exposes Government Failure (December 2008)
  
  
• Economic Stimulus Amounts to Central Planning (December 2008)
  
  
• The Wizards of Washington (December 2008)
  
  
• Bush’s Dangerous Game in the South Caucasus (November 2008)
  
  
• Obama Should Oppose Preventive Detention (November 2008)
  
  
• George Bush, Big-Government Man (November 2008)
  
  
• No, the Government Can’t (November 2008)
  
  
• The Court Almost Gets It Right on Guns (October 2008)
  
  
• What Greenspan Missed (October 2008)
  
  
• Government Is Already an Income-Transfer Machine (October 2008)
  
  
• An Echo, Not a Choice (October 2008)
  
  
• The Corporate State Wins (October 2008)
  
  
• The Corporate State Fails (October 2008)
  
  
• Habeas Corpus Barely Saved (September 2008)
  
  
• Government Failure (September 2008)
  
  
• McCain’s Self-Righteous Fakery (September 2008)
  
  
• How Can You Love a Country? (August 2008)
  
  
• Well, That’s Politics (August 2008)
  
  
• What about the Ossetians? (August 2008)
  
  
• War in Georgia Shows U.S. Foreign Policy Is a Bust (August 2008)
  
  
• Pickens Plan is Based on Ignorance (August 2008)
  
  
• Just What We Need: New Reasons to Go to War (July 2008)
  
  
• On Winning and Losing Wars (July 2008)
  
  
• What’s Wrong With Selling Your Vote? (July 2008)
  
  
• The Court Gets It Right on Guns (July 2008)
  
  
• War Is Peace and Other Things the Government Wants You to Believe (Video)
  (June 2008)
  
  
• Why the Peaceful Majority of Muslims Are Not Irrelevant (June 2008)
  
  
• Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? (June 2008)
  
  
• Habeas Corpus Barely Saved (June 2008)
  
  
• Obama and McCain Are Both Wrong (June 2008)
  
  
• Would-Be Rulers without clothes (May 2008)
  
  
• Can You Really Love Your Country (May 2008)
  
  
• Clinton and Obama Struggle for Power (May 2008)
  
  
• The “New Politics”: Squaring the Circle (May 2008)
  
  
• One-Party System (May 2008)
  
  
• GOP Statists (April 2008)
  
  
• Pentagon Conduits (April 2008)
  
  
• A New Reason to Go to War (April 2008)
  
  
• One Hundred Years in Iraq? (April 2008)
  
  
• Independent Migrants, Welfare, and the Law (March 2008)
  
  
• Why the Peaceful Majority of Muslims Are Not Irrelevant (March 2008)
  
  
• Would-Be Rulers without Clothes (March 2008)
  
  
• Why They Hate Us (February 2008)
  
  
• GOP, R.I.P.? (February 2008)
  
  
• Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain’s Life (January 2008)
  
  
• Political Stimulus (January 2008)
  
  
• Pathetic Arguments for Foreign Intervention (January 2008)
  
  
• More Victims of Immigration Control (January 2008)
  
  
• Energy Facists (January 2008)
  
  
• Hands Off Pakistan (January 2008)
  
  
• America’s Anti-Militarist Tradition (December 2007)
  
  
• Torturing the Language of Torture (December 2007)
  
  
• Iran’s Phantom Nukes (December 2007)
  
  
• “Patriotic Grace” in Support of War Is No Virtue (November 2007)
  
  
• Iraq 3.0 (November 2007)
  
  
• Should the State License Human Beings? (November 2007)
  
  
• Vouchers or School Choice? (November 2007)
  
  
• Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain’s Life (November 2007)
  
  
• A Bogus Libertarian Defense of War (October 2007)
  
  
• Busy Bush Has Time to Run the World (October 2007)
  
  
• War as Government Program (Video) (October 2007)
  
  
• Blackwater and Bush’s War (October 2007)
  
  
• America’s Anti-Militarist Tradition (October 2007)
  
  
• Ahmadinejad (October 2007)
  
  
• Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now (September 2007)
  
  
• Do Americans Owe Service to the Nation? (September 2007)
  
  
• Conservative Hypocrisy (September 2007)
  
  
• War Is a Government Program (August 2007)
  
  
• Iraq and Vietnam (August 2007)
  
  
• Autocracy Comes to America (August 2007)
  
  
• Causual Talk of War (August 2007)
  
  
• Winning Is Losing (August 2007)
  
  
• The Good and Bad News about the Bush Wars (July 2007)
  
  
• A Bogus Libertarian Defense of War (July 2007)
  
  
• Yes to Recriminations Against Iraq Policymakers (July 2007)
  
  
• No Taxation without Representation in Court! (July 2007)
  
  
• Libertarianism: Left or Right? (June 2007)
  
  
• Why They Hate Us (June 2007)
  
  
• Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now (June 2007)
  
  
• Dare We Call It Tyranny (June 2007)
  
  
• Conservatives Flunk Logic (June 2007)
  
  
• New Deal, Old Deal (May 2007)
  
  
• Immigration Policy Reveals What We Are (May 2007)
  
  
• Thank You, Ron Paul (May 2007)
  
  
• Bush War Policy Comes Crashing Down (May 2007)
  
  
• Thank You, Congress, for Not Taking It All (April 2007)
  
  
• The Lesson of Virginia Tech (April 2007)
  
  
• What’s to Lose? (April 2007)
  
  
• Preventing Opposition to War (April 2007)
  
  
• Our Patience on Iraq Should Be Exhausted (April 2007)
  
  
• The Flim-Flam of Income-Tax Denial (March 2007)
  
  
• Thank Goodness We Can Ignore the Wars (March 2007)
  
  
• Bush and Chavez: A Marriage Made in Hell (March 2007)
  
  
• End the Other War, Too (February 2007)
  
  
• Stop Them! (February 2007)
  
  
• Imperial Hopefuls (February 2007)
  
  
• Know When to Fold ’Em (February 2007)
  
  
• U.S. Hypocrisy on Iran (February 2007)
  
  
• Freedom and Government Schools (January 2007)
  
  
• No Need for Energy Subsidies (January 2007)
  
  
• Bush's Doublethink (January 2007)
  
  
• Bipartisanship? Bah! (January 2007)
  
  
• What Exactly Did Gerald Ford Heal? (January 2007)
  
  
• Thinking About Foreign Policy (December 2006)
  
  
• End Draft Registration! (December 2006)
  
  
• Death by Consensus (December 2006)
  
  
• Is Any War Civil? (December 2006)
  
  
• End the Other War Too (December 2006)
  
  
• A Real Free-Market Benefits Workers (November 2006)
  
  
• Thank You, Milton Friedman (November 2006)
  
  
• Misplaced Nostalgia (November 2006)
  
  
• The Repudiation of Bush (November 2006)
  
  
• Beware of Income-Tax Casuistry, Part 3 (October 2006)
  
  
• Eminent-Domain Chutzpah (October 2006)
  
  
• Page Scandal: Political Corruption Precedes Sexual Corruption
  (October 2006)
  
  
• The Superpower Myth (October 2006)
  
  
• It’s Not War (October 2006)
  
  
• Beware of Income-Tax Casuistry, Part 2 (September 2006)
  
  
• Outsourcing Torture (September 2006)
  
  
• Bush’s Evasion (September 2006)
  
  
• A Real Free Market Benefits Workers (September 2006)
  
  
• Hidden Government (September 2006)
  
  
• Beware of Income-Tax Casuistry, Part 1 (August 2006)
  
  
• Conservatives and the Court (August 2006)
  
  
• Polarization Needed (August 2006)
  
  
• Mr. Bush, Are You There? (August 2006)
  
  
• Jane Jacobs: The Spontaneity of Cities (July 2006)
  
  
• Not World War III (July 2006)
  
  
• Bush Countenances Middle East Violence (July 2006)
  
  
• Government the Exploiter, Not Protector (July 2006)
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Is No One to Emulate (July 2006)
  
  
• Libertarian Class Analysis (June 2006)
  
  
• Government Keeps People Poor (June 2006)
  
  
• Americans Should Be “Anti-American” (June 2006)
  
  
• Is This Really War? (June 2006)
  
  
• Iraqi Death by Political Abstraction (June 2006)
  
  
• Independent Migrants Have Rights Too (June 2006)
  
  
• Free Cory Maye (May 2006)
  
  
• The Neo-Monarchy of George W. Bush (May 2006)
  
  
• Oil-Feeding Frenzy (May 2006)
  
  
• What Is the Enemy? (April 2006)
  
  
• The Price of Empire (April 2006)
  
  
• What Do You Mean “We” (April 2006)
  
  
• “Failure to File” Says It All (April 2006)
  
  
• Not War, But an Imperial Venture (April 2006)
  
  
• Revisiting a Libertarian Classic: Nock’s Our Enemy, the State (March 2006)
  
  
• Bush Pledges More Mayhem in the Middle East (March 2006)
  
  
• The New Mercantilism (March 2006)
  
  
• RIM Was Wronged (March 2006)
  
  
• Imperial Troubles (March 2006)
  
  
• Is “the Environment” a Collectivist Idea? (Febuary 2006)
  
  
• Self-Deception about Medical Care (February 2006)
  
  
• Bush Speaks Nonsense on Energy (February 2006)
  
  
• Where Are the Isolationists? (February 2006)
  
  
• Who Made the State the Ultimate Parent? (January 2006)
  
  
• Government Perpetuates the Underclass (January 2006)
  
  
• Hurting Wal-Mart’s Employees (January 2006)
  
  
• It Takes Government to Create a Reading Crisis (January 2006)
  
  
• School-Choice Flaws (January 2006)
  
  
• Abolish the Army Corp — and More (December 2005)
  
  
• More Drug-War Victims (December 2005)
  
  
• Nation-Building Is Now Job One (December 2005)
  
  
• The Emperor Has Spoken (December 2005)
  
  
• The Social Benefits of Making Money (December 2005)
  
  
• The NRA Gets It Wrong (November 2005)
  
  
• Must Our Senators Embarrass Us So? (November 2005)
  
  
• The Ultimate Parent? (November 2005)
  
  
• Leave the Oil Companies Alone (November 2005)
  
  
• Africa Needs Freedom, Not “Aid” (October 2005)
  
  
• Stop Consumer Gouging! (October 2005)
  
  
• Mr. Bush, Mind Your Own Business (October 2005)
  
  
• More Bush Insults (October 2005)
  
  
• Profiting from Misfortune (October 2005)
  
  
• The Supreme Court Repeals the Constitution
  (September 2005)
  
  
• Freedom’s Fair-Weather Friends (September 2005)
  
  
• Leave New Orleans to Private Development (September 2005)
  
  
• Katrina Exposes Government for What It Is (September 2005)
  
  
• Coercion: It’s What’s for Dinner in Post-Constitutional America
  (August 2005)
  
  
• In Iraq Zero Plus Zero Is More than Zero (August 2005)
  
  
• The NRA Gets It Wrong (August 2005)
  
  
• Evolution or Intelligent Design? None of the Government’s Business
  (August 2005)
  
  
• Cindy Sheehan Is Right (August 2005)
  
  
• The Chutzpah of Wal-Mart Critics (August 2005)
  
  
• Zen and the Art of Iraqi Regime Change (August 2005)
  
  
• Deregulate the Drug Stores (July 2005)
  
  
• Africa Needs Freedom, Not “Aid” (July 2005)
  
  
• The Supreme Court Repeals the Constitution (July 2005)
  
  
• Who Cares About the Income Gap? (June 2005)
  
  
• Trade Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (June 2005)
  
  
• Muddle at the Supreme Court over Medical Marijuana (June 2005)
  
  
• Compulsion: It’s What’s For Dinner (June 2005)
  
  
• Fear Not China (June 2005)
  
  
• The War on Pain Sufferers (June 2005)
  
  
• The Consumer is Boss (May 2005)
  
  
• Democracy, But Not Necessarily Freedom (May 2005)
  
  
• Social Security Demeans Workers (May 2005)
  
  
• Minuteman Project Is a Fraud (May 2005)
  
  
• Tear Down the Trade Walls (April 2005)
  
  
• Beware Grand Inquisitors and Psychology Professors (April 2005)
  
  
• Solution to Birth-Control Controversy: Deregulate the Drugstores
  (April 2005)
  
  
• Medical Marijuana Is Not a Libertarian Cause (March 2005)
  
  
• Schiavo Case Affirms Rule of Law (March 2005)
  
  
• Rule of Law Damaged by Schiavo Bill (March 2005)
  
  
• Social Security’s Malign Premise (March 2005)
  
  
• Democracy May Be Breaking Out, But Is Freedom? (March 2005)
  
  
• Government’s Social Security Mess (March 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Sadists (February 2005)
  
  
• An Elective Despotism (February 2005)
  
  
• The War on Pain Sufferers (February 2005)
  
  
• On the Centenary of America’s Radical for Capitalism (February 2005)
  
  
• Bureaucracy: A Mises Classic, Part 2 (February 2005)
  
  
• Bureaucracy: A Mises Classic, Part 1 (January 2005)
  
  
• A Whopper of an Inaugural Address (January 2005)
  
  
• A Balanced Budget Is Not Enough (January 2005)
  
  
• Will Bush Side with the Property Thieves? (January 2005)
  
  
• Tsunami Aid: Not Theirs to Give (January 2005)
  
  
• Democratic Relativism (December 2004)
  
  
• “Buy American” Hurts Americans (December 2004)
  
  
• Limits on Chinese Imports Harm Low-Income Americans (December 2004)
  
  
• Republicans Have Family under Attack (December 2004)
  
  
• States Should End the Drug War (December 2004)
  
  
• Bush’s Brave New World (November 2004)
  
  
• A Good Way to Spend Thanksgiving? (November 2004)
  
  
• What Did We Do to Deserve Condoleezza Rice? (November 2004)
  
  
• Take the Constitution Seriously in the Second Term (November 2004)
  
  
• The Danger of Science (October 2004)
  
  
• Blame Government for the Vaccine Shortage (October 2004)
  
  
• Honor the Country by Distrusting the Government (October 2004)
  
  
• Kerry Doesn’t Know What a Right Is (October 2004)
  
  
• The Welfare State Rewards Liars (October 2004)
  
  
• Bush’s Brave New World (October 2004)
  
  
• When Force Masquerades as Social Science (September 2004)
  
  
• The Election Isn’t about Vietnam (September 2004)
  
  
• Big Government Republicans (September 2004)
  
  
• How Brown v. Board of Education Throttled Black Schooling (August 2004)
  
  
• Cynical Presidential Candidates (August 2004)
  
  
• Thank Government for the Mess We’re in (August 2004)
  
  
• Kerry’s Energy Socialism (August 2004)
  
  
• A Divisive Campaign Would Be Welcome (August 2004)
  
  
• Why Do Libertarians Ignore the Therapeutic State? (July 2004)
  
  
• Should We Have Faith in Government? (July 2004)
  
  
• Free Martha! Free Bobby! (July 2004)
  
  
• War Is No Blank Check (July 2004)
  
  
• The Draft Is Fascist (July 2004)
  
  
• Government by Euphemism (July 2004)
  
  
• Did Business Want Campaign-Finance “Reform”? (June 2004)
  
  
• No Right to Remain Silent (June 2004)
  
  
• The Fraud of Physician-Assisted Suicide (June 2004)
  
  
• Examining Reagan’s Record on Free Trade (June 2004)
  
  
• Our Elective Monarchy (June 2004)
  
  
• Kerry: An Echo, Not a Choice (June 2004)
  
  
• The Government Is Not “Us” (June 2004)
  
  
• The Bright Side of War (May 2004)
  
  
• W(h)ither Public Schools? (May 2004)
  
  
• The Bush Administration’s Appalling Ineptness (May 2004)
  
  
• No Draft — Ever! (May 2004)
  
  
• Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 2 (May 2004)
  
  
• Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 1 (April 2004)
  
  
• Farm Subsides Must Go (April 2004)
  
  
• Privatize the Airways (April 2004)
  
  
• Ignoring the Fear-Mongering about Outsourcing (April 2004)
  
  
• Campaign Finance Won’t Square the Circle (March 2004)
  
  
• No Wonder People Feel Disfranchised (March 2004)
  
  
• Iraq: One Year Later (March 2004)
  
  
• Martha Stewart Case: Where’s the Victim? (March 2004)
  
  
• Stay Out of Haiti (March 2004)
  
  
• Marry and Let Marry (March 2004)
  
  
• Bush’s War Story Is All Wrong (March 2004)
  
  
• Drugs and Schooling: The Meaning of State Education (February 2004)
  
  
• What Bush Did Wrong During the War (February 2004)
  
  
• Don’t Look to Politicians for Inspiration (February 2004)
  
  
• I’ll Take Free Choice (February 2004)
  
  
• We Need Real Free Trade Now (February 2004)
  
  
• Iraqi Sanctions: Were They Worth It? (January 2004)
  
  
• Bush Legacy: Less Freedom (January 2004)
  
  
• Bush Worker Plan Betrays American Ideals (January 2004)
  
  
• Insanity Has No Place in a Free Society (January 2004)
  
  
• Anti-Freedom Conservatism (December 2003)
  
  
• Bush Shows that Politics Is Theater (December 2003)
  
  
• Keep Politics Away from Money (December 2003)
  
  
• Saddam’s Capture Violates U.S. Constitution (December 2003)
  
  
• Democrats Play Brer Rabbit on Medicare (December 2003)
  
  
• Bad Medicine (November 2003)
  
  
• Bush as Fake Free-Trader (November 2003)
  
  
• The Government’s War on Children (November 2003)
  
  
• Iraq: Democratic or Free? (November 2003)
  
  
• Albright “Apologizes” (November 2003)
  
  
• The Inalienable Right to Self-Medication (November 2003)
  
  
• The Fraud of Insider-Trading Law, Part 2 (October 2003)
  
  
• Legal Plunder in Alabama (October 2003)
  
  
• Desperately Seeking WMDs (October 2003)
  
  
• The Fraud of Insider-Trading Law, Part 1 (September 2003)
  
  
• A Nightmare in Iraq (September 2003)
  
  
• Bush’s Iraqi Smoke (September 2003)
  
  
• Trade Restrictions Show Hypocrisy (September 2003)
  
  
• Two Great Books (August 2003)
  
  
• Central Planning of Electricity Must Fail (August 2003)
  
  
• A President Lies About War? Shocking! (August 2003)
  
  
• Foreign Policy in One Lesson (July 2003)
  
  
• Reimporting Drugs Is OK, But It Misses the Point (July 2003)
  
  
• Lying About War (July 2003)
  
  
• Even with Weapons, Hussein Was No Threat (July 2003)
  
  
• Presidential Sophists on the Loose (July 2003)
  
  
• False in One, False in All (July 2003)
  
  
• What’s Happened to America? (July 2003)
  
  
• Drugged Up on Power (July 2003)
  
  
• Are We Feeling Duped Yet? (June 2003)
  
  
• Tax-Cut Illusions (June 2003)
  
  
• Conservative Conundrum (June 2003)
  
  
• Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists (May 2003)
  
  
• Better Late than Never on Sanctions (May 2003)
  
  
• Short-Sighted Bush (May 2003)
  
  
• Backpedaling on Iraqi Weapons (May 2003)
  
  
• Concentric Circles (May 2003)
  
  
• What’s Missing from This Picture? (April 2003)
  
  
• The Second Tragedy of War (April 2003)
  
  
• Boycott the Boycotters (April 2003)
  
  
• Unnecessary Tragedy (April 2003)
  
  
• The Draft is Un-American (March 2003)
  
  
• Breaking Iraq Windows Won’t Help the Economy (March 2003)
  
  
• Bad Medicine (March 2003)
  
  
• What We Say Goes (March 2003)
  
  
• Free Or Not? (February 2003)
  
  
• What Do Facts Have to Do With It? (February 2003)
  
  
• Taxing Dividends: Once Is Not Enough? (February 2003)
  
  
• Mr. Bush Neglects the Constitution (February 2003)
  
  
• More Like Them than We Care to Admit (February 2003)
  
  
• The French Got It Right This Time (February 2003)
  
  
• Arrogance Is Humility [long] (January 2003)
  
  
• Another Frankenstein’s Monster (January 2003)
  
  
• Don’t Look for Sense Where There Is None (January 2003)
  
  
• Multilateralist Cowards (January 2003)
  
  
• Lott Jeopardizes Individual Liberty (January 2003)
  
  
• Kissinger Is the Wrong Man (January 2003)
  
  
• Postconstitutional America (January 2003)
  
  
• Postmodern Government Budgets (January 2003)
  
  
• Peace Prize to a Man of War (January 2003)
  
  
• Suppose a Democrat Were in the White House (January 2003)
  
  
• In Our Name (December 2002)
  
  
• D.C. Sniper Didn’t Need Legal Loopholes (December 2002)
  
  
• Arrogance Is Humility [short] (December 2002)
  
  
• A Rare Moment of Candor (November 2002)
  
  
• Packing Heat, Part 3 (November 2002)
  
  
• Pawn Takes Knight (November 2002)
  
  
• I Need Provocation Now (November 2002)
  
  
• No Reason to Go to War (October 2002)
  
  
• Listen to the Administration (October 2002)
  
  
• Coming Assaults on America (October 2002)
  
  
• Bush, Rumsfeld, and Orwell (October 2002)
  
  
• Packing Heat, Part 2 (October 2002)
  
  
• Who’s Deterring Whom? (October 2002)
  
  
• Some Nagging Questions (October 2002)
  
  
• Packing Heat, Part 1 (September 2002)
  
  
• Make Him an Offer He Can’t Accept (September 2002)
  
  
• Conservatives, Guns, and Drugs (September 2002)
  
  
• What Dionne Warwick Reveals about the Drug War (September 2002)
  
  
• Repeal the Corporate Tax (September 2002)
  
  
• Leave Sam and Martha Alone (August 2002)
  
  
• Feeling a Draft? (August 2002)
  
  
• The De Facto National ID (August 2002)
  
  
• Can We Call It an Empire Yet? (August 2002)
  
  
• The Problem Is the Schools (August 20, 2002)
  
  
• Liberty Again at Risk (August 2002)
  
  
• Why Is the Self a Lesser Cause? (August 20, 2002)
  
  
• The Real Solution to Business Misconduct (August 20, 2002)
  
  
• The Mental Health Parity Scam (August 2002)
  
  
• The Newest Medical Threat (August 2002)
  
  
• When Will the Catastrophists Learn? (July 2002)
  
  
• Health Is the Health of the State (July 2002)
  
  
• The World’s Poor Lose a Friend (June 2002)
  
  
• What Is the Constitution? [longer version] (June 2002)
  
  
• Rights Belong to Individuals (June 2002)
  
  
• Fiscal Force (May 2002)
  
  
• Do Americans Really Want Freedom? (May 2002) [longer version]
  
  
• Cant and the Middle East (May 2002)
  
  
• Why Congress Investigates Enron (April 2002)
  
  
• War and the State: The Legacy of Randolph Bourne (April 2002)
  
  
• Military Tribunal Rules Violate the Rule of Law (April 2002)
  
  
• What Is the Constitution? [shorter version] (April 2002)
  
  
• Don’t Stimulate — Liberate! (April 2002)
  
  
• Bush Betrays Free Enterprise (April 2002)
  
  
• Andrea Yates: Person or Nonperson? (April 2002)
  
  
• Netscape Gets the Green W (March 2002)
  
  
• Enron and the Cheney List (March 2002)
  
  
• Do Americans Really Want Freedom? (March 2002) [shorter version]
  
  
• War Is the Health of the State [longer version] (March 2002)
  
  
• Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right (February 2002)
  
  
• Regulation Gave Us the Enron Scandal (February 2002)
  
  
• Government Needs to Lose Weight (February 2002)
  
  
• Farmers: Get a Job! (February 2002)
  
  
• Wrong Rights (February 2002)
  
  
• What the Enron Bankruptcy Doesn’t Mean (February 2002)
  
  
• War Is the Health of the State [shorter version] (January 2002)
  
  
• Protecting Our Way of Life? (January 2002)
  
  
• The Drug War and Terrorism (January 2002)
  
  
• An Astounding Remark (January 2002)
  
  
• Settling for an Injustice (December 2001)
  
  
• Self-Inflicted Violence (December 2001)
  
  
• Half a Win Is Better than None (December 2001)
  
  
• A Free Market Is Indomitable (December 2001)
  
  
• The Ultimate Tragedy (December 2001)
  
  
• An Unkeepable Promise (November 2001)
  
  
• Terrorism and the Drug War (November 2001)
  
  
• Nature as Miser (November 2001)
  
  
• The Era of Big Government Being Over Is Over (November 2001)
  
  
• The Constitution Is Forgotten in the Stem-Cell Research Question (November 2001)
  
  
• The Era of Big Government Being Over Is Over (Freedom Daily, November 2001)
  
  
• What’s Wrong with Conservatives (November 2001)
  
  
• We Aren’t Children (November 2001)
  
  
• The War Misgivings (October 2001)
  
  
• The New World Disorder (October 2001)
  
  
• The Social Security Fraud (September 2001)
  
  
• The Sham of Political Compromise (September 2001)
  
  
• The Most Dangerous Substance (September 2001)
  
  
• Mistaken about Motives (September 2001)
  
  
• Conservatives, Guns, and Drugs (September 2001)
  
  
• Becker, Competition, and Education (September 2001)
  
  
• Avoiding Phony Public Service (September 2001)
  
  
• Update on the Drug War (August 2001)
  
  
• The Myth of Self-Government (July 2001)
  
  
• Free Markets Aren’t Conservative [longer version] (June 2001)
  
  
• Kill the Death Tax [shorter version] (May 2001)
  
  
• Kill the Death Tax [longer version] (May 2001)
  
  
• Government as Parasite (May 2001)
  
  
• The “Good Government” Attack on Free Speech (May 2001)
  
  
• Free Trade without the “But” (May 2001)
  
  
• Beware the Conservationists (May 2001)
  
  
• What Happened to the Conservatives? (May 2001)
  
  
• A Republic, Not an Empire (May 2001)
  
  
• No Compromise on Campaign Finance Reform (May 2001)
  
  
• Sell the Schools (April 2001)
  
  
• The Rule of Law: R.I.P. (April 2001)
  
  
• April Is the Cruelest Month (April 2001)
  
  
• Tax Cuts Need No Justification (March 2001)
  
  
• A Nation of Children (February 2001)
  
  
• Free Markets Aren’t Conservative [shorter version] (February 2001)
  
  
• Some Real Reaching Out (January 2001)
  
  
• Bring Back the Deficit! (January 2001)
  
  
• Don’t Ignore the Man behind the Curtain (January 2001)
  
  
• Your Vote Doesn’t Count (December 2000)
  
  
• The Wills of the Persons (December 2000)
  
  
• No One Runs the Country (December 2000)
  
  
• No One Is Qualified (December 2000)
  
  
• Don’t Just Keep the Electoral College; Repeal the 17th Amendment (December 2000)
  
  
• Politicians Can Pollute Too (November 2000)
  
  
• The Civil War and the American Mind (November 2000)
  
  
• Young People Aren’t Skeptical Enough! (November 2000)
  
  
• Don’t Stifle Debate (October 2000)
  
  
• War, Peace, and Bill Clinton (October 2000)
  
  
• The $9 Trillion Federal Budget (October 2000)
  
  
• The Assault on Guns Continues (October 2000)
  
  
• Hypocritical Opponents of Racial Profiling (October 2000)
  
  
• The Real Surplus (September 2000)
  
  
• What Al Gore Really Said (September 2000)
  
  
• Who’s Negative? (September 2000)
  
  
• Abolish NHTSA (September 2000)
  
  
• An Echo, Not a Choice (September 2000)
  
  
• Bright Days Ahead for the Second Amendment? (September 2000)
  
  
• The Bankrupt Anti-Gun Movement (August 2000)
  
  
• Lynching (August 2000)
  
  
• The Right to Choose What? (August 2000)
  
  
• No One Is Qualified to Be President (August 2000)
  
  
• Self-Defense Prohibition (July 2000)
  
  
• More Mideast Bills (July 2000)
  
  
• Gored, Not Gouged (July 2000)
  
  
• Government: Creator of Uncertainty (July 2000)
  
  
• The War on Drugs Rots America (July 2000)
  
  
• Stop the Political Gouging! (July 2000)
  
  
• Kill the Estate Tax (June 2000)
  
  
• Of, By, and For the People? (June 2000)
  
  
• Bush’s Social Security Sham (June 2000)
  
  
• Education and the Presidential Race (June 2000)
  
  
• Limit Government, Not Contributions [longer version] (May 2000)
  
  
• The Vietnam War Was Immoral (May 2000)
  
  
• When the Violent Attack the Peaceful (May 2000)
  
  
• Wishful Thinking on Guns (May 2000)
  
  
• April Is the Cruelest Month (April 2000)
  
  
• Elián’s Fate: It’s Not America’s Decision (April 2000)
  
  
• What the Market Teaches (April 2000)
  
  
• Reno’s Disgrace (April 2000)
  
  
• Off His Rocker? (April 2000)
  
  
• No Worry about Gas Prices (April 2000)
  
  
• Public Master [longer version] (March 2000)
  
  
• Count Me Out (March 2000)
  
  
• The Hero’s Hero (March 2000)
  
  
• Tell All — Or Else (March 2000)
  
  
• The Taxman at Your Service (February 2000)
  
  
• Ask Not (February 2000)
  
  
• Limit Government, Not Contributions [shorter version] (February 2000)
  
  
• Anarcho-Anit-Immigrationism? (February 2000)
  
  
• ATM Tyranny (February 2000)
  
  
• The Benign Gap (January 2000)
  
  
• Freedom and the 21st Century (January 2000)
  
  
• Why Does Buchanan Scare Them? (January 2000)
  
  
• Short-Circuit the Internet Tax (January 2000)
  
  
• Breeding Terrorism (December 1999)
  
  
• Public Master [shorter version] (December 1999)
  
  
• Drugs and Politicians (December 1999)
  
  
• False Alternatives (December 1999)
  
  
• None Dare Call It Extortion (December 1999)
  
  
• Oh, Go Away Already (November 1999)
  
  
• Surplus Balderdash [longer version] (November 1999)
  
  
• Welfare Is Welfare (November 1999)
  
  
• Imports are Good! (November 1999)
  
  
• Imports are Good! (November 1999)
  
  
• The Lynching of Microsoft (November 1999)
  
  
• Mr. Bush Flunked on Purpose (November 1999)
  
  
• Moderation: Virtue or Vice? (October 1999)
  
  
• The Myth of Public Service [longer version] (October 1999)
  
  
• The Art of Plunder (October 1999)
  
  
• The Consequences of World War II [shorter version] (October 1999)
  
  
• Justice, Not Compassion (September 1999)
  
  
• Population Controllers Got it Wrong (September 1999)
  
  
• Wrong Again, Mr. President (September 1999)
  
  
• Group of Odd People (September 1999)
  
  
• The GOP and Education (September 1999)
  
  
• Free Wal-Mart! (September 1999)
  
  
• Exploiting JFK Jr.’s Death (August 1999)
  
  
• Drugs and George W. Bush (August 1999)
  
  
• Bad Verdicts (August 1999)
  
  
• Seeking Explanations, Not Causes (August 1999)
  
  
• Socializing the Children (August 1999)
  
  
• Tax Cuts Are Free (August 1999)
  
  
• Surplus Balderdash [shorter version] (August 1999)
  
  
• What’s Compassion Got to Do with It? (July 1999)
  
  
• Why Are They Poor? (July 1999)
  
  
• The Myth of Public Service [shorter version] (July 1999)
  
  
• Clinton’s Quagmire (July 1999)
  
  
• A Bad Precedent (June 1999)
  
  
• Bill Clinton: World Cop (June 1999)
  
  
• Lies, Damn Lies, and the Clinton Administration (June 1999)
  
  
• Politics by Incantation (June 1999)
  
  
• Tax-Cut Deceptions (May 1999)
  
  
• Delay the Canonization (May 1999)
  
  
• More Power for Washington (May 1999)
  
  
• In Whose Interest Is This War? (May 1999)
  
  
• It’s Not Ours to Negotiate (May 1999)
  
  
• There’s No Third Way (April 1999)
  
  
• Know Your Government (April 1999)
  
  
• It’s an Economy, Stupid (April 1999)
  
  
• The Costs of War (April 1999)
  
  
• Don’t Support the Troops: Bring Them Home (April 1999)
  
  
• April Is the Cruelest Month (April 1999)
  
  
• The American Empire Strikes Back (March 1999)
  
  
• Thank You, Mr. President (March 1999)
  
  
• Constitution 101 (March 1999)
  
  
• Preventing Holocausts (March 1999)
  
  
• Searching for Monsters Abroad (March 1999)
  
  
• Tax-Cut Fallacies (February 1999)
  
  
• Pay Equity Errors (February 1999)
  
  
• A-Scalping We van Gogh [longer version] (February 1999)
  
  
• The King’s False Legacy (February 1999)
  
  
• The Capricious State (February 1999)
  
  
• Don’t Blame the Thermometer for the Fever [longer version]
  (January 1999)
  
  
• The Economic Ignorance of Our “Leaders” (January 1999)
  
  
• The Hot Air Emanates from Washington (January 1999)
  
  
• Rhinestone Benevolence (January 1999)
  
  
• Euro Is a No-Go (January 1999)
  
  
• The Best Peace Money Can Buy? (December 1998)
  
  
• Financial Privacy: R.I.P (December 1998)
  
  
• Thought Crimes and Presidential Tantrums (December 1998)
  
  
• Spines of Jello, Not Steel (December 1998)
  
  
• Toying with the Free Market (December 1998)
  
  
• Policy Overdose (December 1998)
  
  
• Stop Playing Games (November 1998)
  
  
• Treating Us like Children [longer version] (November 1998)
  
  
• A-Scalping We van Gogh [shorter version] (November 1998)
  
  
• All Smoke (November 1998)
  
  
• Don’t Blame the Thermometer for the Fever [shorter version]
  (October 1998)
  
  
• Why Does Government Meddle in the Arts? (October 1998)
  
  
• Educational Gimmickry [longer version] (October 1998)
  
  
• Government: Destroyer of Wealth (October 1998)
  
  
• President’s Perilous Foreign Affairs (September 1998)
  
  
• Politics Won’t Produce Moral Heroes (September 1998)
  
  
• Home Runs and the Capricious Tax Man (September 1998)
  
  
• Eliminate, Don’t Reform, the IRS [longer version] (September 1998)
  
  
• Forget the Trade Deficit! (August 1998)
  
  
• Our Corrupting Welfare State (August 1998)
  
  
• Clinton’s Job Performance Puzzle (August 1998)
  
  
• Clinton Tests Our Devotion to Liberty (July 1998)
  
  
• Treating Us like Children [shorter version] (July 1998)
  
  
• The Politics of Scandal (July 1998)
  
  
• Eliminate, Don’t Reform, the IRS [shorter version] (July 1998)
  
  
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow [shorter version] (June 1998)
  
  
• No Third Way (June 1998)
  
  
• Read the Speech, Mr. Clinton (June 1998)
  
  
• Service without a Smile (June 1998)
  
  
• The Antitrust Absurdity (June 1998)
  
  
• Educational Gimmickry [shorter version] (June 1998)
  
  
• Immigration Controls Cause Exploitation [shorter version #2] (May 1998)
  
  
• Save the Children — from Government (May 1998)
  
  
• Some Free-Enterprise System (May 1998)
  
  
• Punishing Success (May 1998)
  
  
• To Create Order, Remove the Planner (May 1998)
  
  
• One Entrepreneur Is Worth a Million Consumer Advocates (May 1998)
  
  
• The Price of Junk Science [longer version] (April 1998)
  
  
• Bank Mergers and Progress (April 1998)
  
  
• What They Don’t Know (March 1998)
  
  
• Hair Today, Fairness Tomorrow [longer version] (March 1998)
  
  
• Our Ultimate Resource Gone (February 1998)
  
  
• Such a Deal! (February 1998)
  
  
• Immigration Controls Cause Exploitation [longer version] (February 1998)
  
  
• Drawing the Line (February 1998)
  
  
• The Bipartisan Drug Warp (February 1998)
  
  
• Any Surplus Belongs to the Taxpayers (January 1998)
  
  
• Let the Presidency Be Diminished (January 1998)
  
  
• The Folly of Castro (January 1998)
  
  
• Social Security Has to Go (January 1998)
  
  
• Recall the Government Meat Inspectors [longer version] (January 1998)
  
  
• No Federal Role in Daycare (January 1998)
  
  
• California’s Blow against Property Rights (December 1997)
  
  
• The Price of Junk Science [shorter version] (December 1997)
  
  
• The Creeping Takeover of Medical Care, Part 2 [longer version]
  (December 1997)
  
  
• No Bailouts for Ailing Asian Economies (December 1997)
  
  
• Some Republican Revolution (December 1997)
  
  
• Why Do the Taxpayers Have to Support Professional Sports?
  (November 1997)
  
  
• Should Hate Be a Crime? (November 1997)
  
  
• Medical Regulation Piled on Medical Regulation (November 1997)
  
  
• The Creeping Takeover of Medical Care, Part 1 [longer version]
  (November 1997)
  
  
• Topsy Turvy Foreign Policy (November 1997)
  
  
• Time to Bid the UN Farewell (October 1997)
  
  
• Neglected Fortieth Anniversary (October 1997)
  
  
• Campaign Finance Follies (October 1997)
  
  
• Property as the Key to Self-Determination (October 1997)
  
  
• Good Samaritan Laws Are a Bad Idea (September 1997)
  
  
• The Republican Tax Fraud (September 1997)
  
  
• New Laws Aren’t Needed for the Paparazzi (September 1997)
  
  
• Mandatory Volunteerism: Were Orwell Alive, He’d Die of Laughter
  [longer version] (September 1997)
  
  
• Do We Need the Government’s Permission for Everything?
  (September 1997)
  
  
• Cutting Taxes Is Selfish [longer version] (August 1997)
  
  
• Back to the Government’s Clutches (August 1997)
  
  
• Recall the Government Meat Inspectors [shorter version] (August 1997)
  
  
• Stop the Flood of Taxpayer Money [longer version] (July 1997)
  
  
• Capitalism, Socialism, or a Third Way? (July 1997)
  
  
• The Creeping Takeover of Medical Care [shorter version] (July 1997)
  
  
• Warming People Up for Government Control (July 1997)
  
  
• Immigration Controls Cause Exploitation [shorter version #1] (July 1997)
  
  
• Four Cheers for Capitalism [longer version] (June 1997)
  
  
• The Key to Race: Depoliticize It (June 1997)
  
  
• Taxes in the Electronic Global Market (June 1997)
  
  
• The Campaign Finance Red Herring [shorter version] (May 1997)
  
  
• The Campaign Finance Red Herring [longer version] (May 1997)
  
  
• Are Foreign Lobbyists Really a Threat? (May 1997)
  
  
• Should We Be Thankful for the FDA? (May 1997)
  
  
• Smoke If You Want, and Pay for It (May 1997)
  
  
• Vice President Chutzpah (May 1997)
  
  
• Cutting Taxes Is Selfish [shorter version] (April 1997)
  
  
• Washington: Scandalized and Loving It (April 1997)
  
  
• Mandatory Volunteerism: If Orwell Were Alive, He’d Die of Laughter [shorter version] (April 1997)
  
  
• The Nature of the Welfare State (April 1997)
  
  
• FDR: A Fitting Memorial? (April 1997)
  
  
• April 15: Day of Infamy (April 1997)
  
  
• Stop the Flood of Taxpayer Money [shorter version] (March 1997)
  
  
• Four Cheers for Capitalism [shorter version] (March 1997)
  
  
• Why Does the Fed Set Rates, Anyway? (March 1997)
  
  
• Order without Design (March 1997)
  
  
• The FTC Strikes Again (March 1997)
  
  
• The President Goes Wrong on Education (February 1997)
  
  
• The Tragedy of the Public Schools Continues (February 1997)
  
  
• Clinton’s State of Mind Address (February 1997)
  
  
• The Evils of Economic Sanctions [longer version] (February 1997)
  
  
• The Welfare Trap (January 1997)
  
  
• Freedom Is the Best Insurance against Terrorism [longer version]
  (December 1996)
  
  
• The Clinton Administration’s War on Privacy [longer version]
  (November 1996)
  
  
• What’s So Great about Democracy? [shorter version] (October 1996)
  
  
• The Evils of Economic Sanctions [shorter version] (October 1996)
  
  
• The State Threat to Computer Privacy [longer version] (October 1996)
  
  
• More Washington Gibberish (September 1996)
  
  
• Freedom, Not Growth (August 1996)
  
  
• Freedom Is the Best Insurance against Terrorism [shorter version] (August 1996)
  
  
• What’s So Great about Democracy? [longer version] (July 1996)
  
  
• Bob Dole Should Rediscover a Better Republican Tradition (July 1996)
  
  
• What’s Wrong with History Standards? [shorter version] (July 1996)
  
  
• Corporate Chiefs Should Refuse Clinton (July 1996)
  
  
• The Clinton Administration’s War on Privacy [shorter version] (July 1996)
  
  
• Repeal the Welfare System (June 1996)
  
  
• Fending Off Government (June 1996)
  
  
• Foreign Workers Are Good for America (June 1996)
  
  
• Freeing the Education Market [shorter version] (June 1996)
  
  
• Good Intentions Are Not Enough (June 1996)
  
  
• We Need Freedom, Not School Standards (June 1996)
  
  
• The State Threat to Computer Privacy [shorter version] (June 1996)
  
  
• Escape from Responsibility (May 1996)
  
  
• Repeal the Minimum Wage (May 1996)
  
  
• Government Should Ignore Gas Prices (May 1996)
  
  
• The Education Crisis Is Real (May 1996)
  
  
• Ideas on Liberty in the Strangest Places (April 1996)
  
  
• April 15, Day of Infamy (April 1996)
  
  
• Censorship in Cyberspace (March 1996)
  
  
• Public Schools and the Assault on the Family (February 1996)
  
  
• Washington Gibberish (January 1996)
  
  
• Individual Rights or Civil Rights? (December 1995)
  
  
• Abolish the Federal Cultural Agencies (November 1995)
  
  
• What the Second Amendment Means (October 1995)
  
  
• Killing Noncombatants (September 1995)
  
  
• The Commerce Clause: Route to Omnipotent Government (August 1995)
  
  
• Resolving the School Prayer Conflict (July 1995)
  
  
• Takings: The Evils of Eminent Domain (July 1995)
  
  
• Horrors! Maybe the Schools Are Working Just Fine (July 1995)
  
  
• What’s Wrong with History Standards? [longer version] (July 1995)
  
  
• Freedom through Encryption (June 1995)
  
  
• Baseball, Microsoft, and Antitrust Tyranny (May 1995)
  
  
• The America First Committee (April 1995)
  
  
• The Roots of World War II (February 1995)
  
  
• The Right to Self-Treatment (January 1995)
  
  
• Trade and Immigration Controls Assault the Right to Life (September 1994)
  
  
• The Right to Life Equals the Right to Possess Firearms (June 1994)
  
  
• The Disaster of Government Disaster Relief (May 1994)
  
  
• The Population Problem That Isn’t (July 1993)
  
  
• Freeing the Education Market [longer version] (March 1993)
  
  
• The CIA (September 1992)
  
  
• A Free Market for Health Care (June 1992)
  
  
• Pearl Harbor: The Controversy Continues (December 1991)
  
  
• “Ancient History” U.S. Conduct in the Middle East since World War II and the Folly of Intervention (August 1991)
  
  

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