Also in this issue

Ivan Pongracic, Jr., follows Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on his quest to fix the economy, Warren Gibson identifies who really owns the Fed, Peter Leeson and Daniel Smith describe real-world privately generated law, and Mark Skousen looks for the invisible hand.

• The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America

  Reviewed by Art Carden

• Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It

  Reviewed by Gary M. Galles

• Bought and Paid For

  Reviewed by George C. Leef

• Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation

  Reviewed by Daniel Shapiro

• Wisconsin Labor Brouhaha

  by Sheldon Richman

• America’s Greatness Requires War and Taxes?

  by Aeon J. Skoble

• Quantitative Uneasiness

  by Ivan Pongracic Jr.

• Who Owns the Fed?

  by Warren C. Gibson

• The Kid and the Benevolent Bully

  by Roger Koopman

• Can Government Manage the Economy?

  by James L. Payne

• Adam Smith Reveals His (Invisible) Hand

  by Mark Skousen

• Roots of Egypt’s Revolt

  by Nouh El Harmouzi

• China: Wealth but Not Freedom

  by James A. Dorn

• The Law Merchant and International Trade

  by Peter T. Leeson

• Safe Food at Any Cost

  by Paul Schwennesen

• The Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits: Walmart v. Dukes

  by Wendy McElroy

• Spontaneous Order

  by John Stossel

• Competition and Monopoly: A Refresher

  by Lawrence W. Reed

• America’s Greatness Requires War and Taxes?

  by Aeon J. Skoble

• The Progressive Income Tax and the Joy of Spending Other People’s Money

  by Burton W. Folsom Jr.

• Wisconsin Labor Brouhaha

  by Sheldon Richman

• Poverty Is Easy to Explain

  by Walter E. Williams

• Senseless

  by Thomas Szasz

• Naive Keynesianism: A Failure of Imagination

  by Donald J. Boudreaux