Articles From July/August 2008

Features

Whom Should We Thank for High Gas Prices?
by Michael Heberling

I am writing this after having just filled my tank with gasoline at $3.99 per gallon. Oil is over $125... 

Too Much Freedom
by Roy Cordato

Roy Cordato is vice president for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation in North... 

Net Neutrality or Government Brutality?
by Adam B. Summers

Adam B. Summers is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation. Over the past six years or so, network... 

On Baseball and Capital Markets
by Donald F. Grunewald

Donald F. Grunewald is an attorney. Baseball is a game of rules. These rules are not excessively complex... 

Big Brother Is Watching as He’s Never Watched Before
by Becky Akers

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed millimeter-wave scanners at checkpoints... 

Government Workers Are America’s New Elite
by Steven Greenhut

As a child, I would ask my mother on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day: “Why isn’t there... 

Torture and Liberty
by James Bovard

Is torture compatible with liberty? Unfortunately, this is no longer a hypothetical question. Many Americans... 

Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin
by Charles Johnson

To what extent should libertarians concern themselves with social commitments, practices, projects, or... 

Columns

Character, Liberty, and Economics
by Lawrence W. Reed

Over four decades I’ve written scores of articles, essays, and columns on economics; taught the... 

Psychiatry Versus Liberty
by Thomas S. Szasz M.D.

For millennia, slavery—involuntary servitude—was a universally accepted social institution. Today,... 

The Recurring Crisis
by Stephen Davies

Recently the governor of the Bank of England announced that the “nice” times had come to an end.... 

The Conceit of the Regulators
by John Stossel

Unless the government watches closely, the airlines will kill you. That seems to be what many reporters... 

Freedom, Drugs, and the Workplace
by David R. Henderson

Imagine that you work for an employer whom you respect, and you like your job. Then you find out that... 

Departments

Hands Off “Windfall” Profits
by Sheldon Richman

You don’t have to like the oil companies to reject the windfall-profits tax. All you have to know... 

The Fed Should Inflate to End the Financial Crisis?
by Ivan Pongracic Jr.

The current housing and financial crisis has many people blaming “greed and market forces” for unleashing... 

Book Reviews

Book Reviews – July 2008
by George C. Leef

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark Princeton University Press...