Laissez-Faire Today

The other day, a local hamburger joint was advertising a 99 cent hamburger, and I took the offer. It was great. I wondered: how …

Some friends and co-workers spent their holidays at Rancho Santana in Nicaragua, where you can live like a king on a pauper’s salary. The …

If you are a visitor from another planet and you want to find out about real life on Earth, what do you watch on …

A staple of action/thriller movies like the Mission: Impossible and the James Bond series is that the government agencies have all the cool gadgets, …

The barely-defeated legislation called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) hit out of the blue and caused a global scramble among the smart set to …

One reason that the Brothers Grimm fairy tales have such appeal — more so than the folklore that came before — is that they …

In the days following the gift-giving holidays, many millions of people stand in judgement over the quality of the gifts they gave and the …

The best part of the chaotic debate in Washington about the payroll tax is that this wicked institution is finally getting the public attention …

Two important regulatory rulings have been issued in the last day that will have a profound effect on your life, both immediately and over …

There stand two broad schools of thought: those who believe in state control of one or many aspects of the social order and those who believe in laissez-faire, that is, that attempts at state control are counterproductive to the cause of prosperity, justice, peace and the building of the civilized life. Laissez-faire says that the artists, merchants, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, investors, and property owners — and not the cartelizing thugs of the state — ought to be permitted to drive the course of history.