Archive for Theodore Balaker
Book Review: Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams, by Steven J. Milloy
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams by Steven J. Milloy Cato Institute • 2001 • 191 pages • $18.95 Reviewed by Theodore Balaker So much of staying healthy and sane is worrying about what’s important and not sweating the small stuff. It makes sense to worry about, say, getting enough exercise since [...]
18Jan2003 | Theodore Balaker | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review ~ The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stphane Courtois et al.; translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer
Harvard University Press • 1999 • 858 pages • $37.50 My junior high-school English teacher once presented me with a small gift, a button bearing the likeness of Mao Zedong. In a PBS travel video, Monty Python alum Michael Palin gushes about sleeping in Mao’s bed. He nods off reading The Little Red Book. During [...]
1Jan2001 | Theodore Balaker | 6 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
