Jonah Goldberg: Tyranny Of The Typical

Society and government are not interchangeable terms. And now let us recall the "Fable of the Shoes." In his 1973 "LibertarianManifesto," the late Murray Rothbard argued that the biggest obstacle in the road out of serfdom was "status quo bias." In society, we're accustomed to rapid change. "New products, new life styles, new ideas are often embraced ... MORE

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David Harsanyi: Let's Eat The Rich

Obama's misguided economic agenda. Some wiseguys at the Economic Freedom Network just released a survey alleging that the United States has fallen from the sixth-freest economy in the world to the 10th-freest. The survey is based on four foundations of a healthy capitalist society: "personal choice, voluntary exchange coordinated by markets, freedom to enter and ... MORE