Laissez-Faire Today

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will …

Every time you buy a drug at a pharmacy — be it by prescription or over the counter — there’s a middleman that makes …

In the ancient world, when people got themselves into debt, they were often forced to sell their daughters into prostitution and their sons into …

“What are you complaining about all the time?” people sometimes ask me. “I’m just about as free as I want to be.” Here’s the …

Back in 1972, when I was a 10-year-old technology and news geek in Chicagoland, a particular story grabbed my attention. Someone had planted time …

That Edward Snowden has put the whole political, corporate, and governing class in a bind. With his revelations that a heretofore obscure agency has …

Mohandas Gandhi, the greatest pacifist of the 20th century, is widely quoted as having said, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in …

Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, for short — is coming. Enrollment in state exchanges, online marketplaces for purchasing health …

Is there anything that we can do to stop the government’s data mining of our email, phone calls, and other digital habits? I moderated …

Struggling savers, of which there are plenty here at FreedomFest, have been getting plenty of investment wisdom during this year’s largest gathering of free minds. However, there is no consensus as to what a person is to do.