Many people don’t understand my opposition to government subsidies for “green” energy and question my belief that the market process is likely to generate environmentally and ethically superior results. Since both government mandates and markets will produce errors, it’s reasonable to ask: Which is more likely to correct them quickly? Government should provide funds for […]

If you drive, chances are you have damaged a car. Maybe, through no fault of your own, a fender was damaged or, as happened to me, a violent hailstorm dimpled your car like a large golf ball. What’s next? You make an insurance claim, cash the settlement check, and make a decision to fix or […]

Here’s a great and beneficial irony: exploiting poverty helps the poor. Many argue that increasing globalization enables wealthy countries to consume the world’s resources while exploiting poor countries’ cheap labor and trashing their environments. Well, here’s a resource we should be trying our utmost to deplete: poverty. Yes, poverty is a resource, and one that […]

Charles Murray is a courageous, tough-love analyst of social policy. His new book by AEI Press, In Our Hands, is the most radical I’ve read. Ever. Charles has worked to counter poverty since in the Peace Corps four decades ago. With a Harvard B.A. and MIT Ph.D. in political science, he is one of America’s […]