From antiquity to the Middle Ages, public health meant two things: sanitation (mainly clean water supply and sewage disposal) and protection against epidemics. On …

New York seems to have more than its fair share of knuckleheads. Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman are both stalwart columnists in The New …

Government can control many things, but it can’t control our minds and, therefore, our economic decisions. This has been a major source of frustration …

In 1985, Irwin Schiff wrote in what has become a classic book, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t, a pictorial introduction to basic economics. Now his sons are taking up where he left off.

Edward Snowden is in big trouble for revealing that our government is doing to its own citizens what the U.S. once accused Russia of doing to its citizens. In what is really a bizarre turn of events, Russia has become a safe haven for an American whistle-blower.

A recent study on Canadian health care has been released late last year. In it, the authors examine the deleterious effects of socialized medicine on patient wait times and the delivery of care.

Japan’s “universal” health care system, like all such systems the world over, is in trouble, with costs rising and the population aging. Nearly 25% …

I’ve just completed a heavy schedule of talks at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver. All my talks centered on information economics, Web …

In recent months, the price of gold has tumbled. Along the way, lower gold prices have undermined the share price of many mining plays. …

The stock market hovers around all-time highs, and right on cue, individual investors are starting to get back into stocks. They are tired of …

“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.

If the Spy Briefing Club is about anything, it’s about the freedom of thought. Most of us take the freedom to think what we …

The first round of negotiations over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is scheduled to start this week, but …

I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …

The race issue in America never seems to go away. We were reminded again last week when celebrity Southern chef Paula Deen was raked …