Recently added articles from Freeman:
Theory and Crisis
Jan 01, 2009; ... What might be even more distressing than the current buildup of the corporate state in response to the supposed economic crisis is the way some self-styled advocates of the free market are willing to cast aside the economic theory they once claimed to embrace. If you are a glutton for ...
A Man Who Knew the Value of Life and Liberty
Jan 01, 2009; ... A television audience in the millions will feast on the glitz and glamor of Hollywood when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are bestowed February 22. My thoughts will be elsewhere that Sunday night-on a friend who won an Oscar 24 years ago. Three days later, February 25, will mark the 13th ...
Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain't So!
Jan 01, 2009; ... Individualists get a bad rap in politics these days. That should come as no surprise; politics these days is dominated by electoral politics, and electoral politics is an essentially anti-individualistic enterprise. With free markets and other forms of voluntary association, people who ...
Raw Milk and the Sour State
Jan 01, 2009; ... Take a moment, if you will, to think about the milk you buy from the grocery store. Whether it is an expensive organic brand or simply carries a mega-chain store name, that milk has undergone pasteurization and homogenization. In pasteurization it has been quickly heated to temperatures ...
Poker and the Free Market
Jan 01, 2009; ... Until recently I was a director and the chairman of the audit committee of one of Bermuda's banks, but I lived with a guilty secret, almost the equivalent of being an alcoholic or, even worse, a smoker. I played poker regularly and had done so since I was about 20 years old. A public poker game ...