Apparently, global markets rallied overnight on hopes that a conflict may be avoided if Syria gives up its chemical weapons. If that’s the case, …

I dreamed I saw Bernard von NotHaus, alive as you or me. Said I, “But Bernard, you’ve been jailed two years.” “I never was,” …

U.S. and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the …

Following an extensive investigation, The Martian can reveal that it is neither Lawrence Summers nor Janet Yellen who will be the next chairman of …

Writers sometimes worry if a day will come when they have nothing more to say. As long as Paul Krugman is around, I will …

Oh, how the media love a good strike. Look at these fast-food workers and peasants standing up to the owners of capital! They aren’t …

Whether you agree or not that the U.S. ought to strike Syria, there is one reason it will: Because it has to. (Indeed, the …

Like all great historical ideas, the project of licensing journalists so that they may benefit from the First Amendment was born in a very …

The position that there need be a state is too often taken for granted. The main body of Sartwell’s book Against the State is …

Crispin Sartwell is someone you should know. He is doing important work in recovering forgotten greats in America’s anti-authoritarian tradition. Among other works, he’s …

In the last several days, I’ve had three phone conversations with friends — completely normal people who have their wits about them — during …

From the moment Barack Obama, the president of the United States, arrived at this plush resort community for a family vacation after another year …

Today, like most days, I fired up my computer. I read freely available information on the latest developments in technology that would, in the …

Remember when President Obama promised back in 2009 that his health care reform plan would cut insurance premiums for the average family by $2,500? …

Many people do not seem to mind the government peeping into their “metadata” or even into their emails, Internet habits, or phone calls. Mark …

A cornered rat has a deadly bite, or so says the lore from the 19th century, when rat baiting was common sport. The same …

Just when you think government couldn’t be more outrageous, you read a story like the one in The New York Times last weekend about …

Today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us. To the TSA agents at airports… to …

Detroit’s fate is best summed up by the phrase “Demographics is destiny.” Take a look at the following chart on Detroit’s population growth since …

Actors. Actresses. NFL football players. Baseball players. Librarians. Mayors. City councilmen. Members of AARP. The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no …

On a Sunday afternoon swim, a 6-year-old boy was bugging me in a sweet sort of way. He rode up and down the handrail …

The Federal Reserve has grown the monetary base from $827 billion to $3.1 trillion in five years. At the same time banks have stuck …

Jim Rickards lit up the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver telling the crowd the price of gold will soar north of $7,000 per …

A frightening story this week in The New Yorker tells of a Texas couple that headed toward the Texas-Louisiana border to buy a used …