Also in this issue

Jim Powell discusses Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt's big-government record, Gene Callahan pleads for maturity in public-policy discussions, Gerald O'Driscoll looks at the Fed's recent conduct, Steven Horwitz explains the idea of unintended consequences, Kevin Carson gazes deep into the health care system, and Joseph Stromberg takes another look at John Locke.

• Health Care and Radical Monopoly

  by Kevin Carson

• Capital Letters, March 2010

  by mnolan

• Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821

  Reviewed by George C. Leef

• Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know

  Reviewed by Tim Stonesifer

• Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Today

  Reviewed by Art Carden

• Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal

  Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves

• Fantasy Is Not an Adult Policy Option

  by Gene Callahan

• Unintended Consequences

  by Steven Horwitz

• Boom and Bust: Crisis and Response

  by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.

• Theodore Roosevelt, Big-Government Man

  by Jim Powell

• Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government?

  by Joseph R. Stromberg

• The Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?

  by Charles Johnson

• Presidents and Precedents

  by Lawrence W. Reed

• Stop Insuring Mortgages

  by John Stossel

• The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux

  by Thomas Szasz

• What Ended the Great Depression?

  by Burton W. Folsom Jr.

• The Market Doesn’t Ration Health Care

  by Sheldon Richman