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I’m off to the airport to visit a lovely little village in Steiermark, so I probably won’t be posting anything until I’m back in the U.S. on January 4. (Also,…

I’d like to see the wording of the law, but this seems quite likely to be a very ominous development. As the New York Times describes a new French law,…

My gym in D.C. has stacks of the usual urban papers near the front door, including the Washington Blade, the D.C. gay paper that this week featured a cover story…

If the tax man is after you, you can just become the tax man’s absolute and unchallenged boss, with powers of life and death over him (and everyone else). I…

The Institute for Humane Studies has a great program of scholarships, grants, seminars, college guides, and much more to help students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The deadline…

It’s finally happened. Calls for mandatory sentences for “carrying a knife.” What about running with scissors? One surely sympathizes with parents of children who have been stabbed to death, but…

You can’t just tinker with Social Security. It’s broke. There is no “trust fund.” Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine has an admirable piece on the truth about Social Security. (More…

In his “Inventing a Crisis” in the New York Times (requires simple registration), the former economist (now political hit man) Paul Krugman writes, “since the politics of privatization depend on…

Baby rescuer hits $27 million lottery. Philanthropists can be rational, too. Note the attention to incentives: Under the 2001 law, parents have three days to abandon infants without fear of…

La Mondialisation? C’est Magnifique! is now available, along with the English, Spanish, and Slovak versions of the essay. They’re all found on the left hand column of this web site…