On February 18 the Montana Policy Institute and the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) co-sponsored an environmental policy conference in Bozeman. The title, “Your Land is My Land: Property Rights in Montana,” suggests this was not a typical Green gathering. And it surely wasn’t. The introduction to the program agenda provided the orientation, noting […]

If you think you’ve seen this column before you are correct. In the interest of promoting “local diversity,” the Bozeman Daily Chronicle no longer runs FREE’s columns each Wednesday but rather once every third week. However, each week we place a FREE Insight on our website. We posted a slightly longer version of this column […]

I recommend an insightful column in last Sunday’s Washington Post, “Why are liberals so condescending?” (February 7, 2010) This op-ed is by University of Virginia political scientist Gerard Alexander. It is based on a forthcoming Bradley Lecture at The American Enterprise Institute. The essay is likely to interest individuals who’ve observed that nearly every Prius […]

It’s fascinating to observe the path of many contentious environmental problems. They attract national attention, the future is seen as foreboding, and then, years later, they have been solved, ameliorated, or forgotten. Acid rain and fluorocarbons exemplify this path. Regulations may solve the projected problems, and we sometimes find that the alleged problem is less […]