Recently added articles from Independent Review:
Some costs of the Great War: nationalizing private life.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The Great War's costs were truly astronomical. As with numbering the stars, the final accounting is in God's hands. The lives, the treasure, the faith in ordered society--all were among the costs. Wilfred Owen suggested in his disconcerting poem "Strange Meeting" that the culture of Europe ...
The application of Darwinism to ideological change, with a case study of food-safety regulation.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Consumers in the United States are frequently exposed to news about food poisoning outbreaks. The year 2009 featured a Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated peanut butter (Blaney 2009). The previous year started with a massive recall of beef processed by a California meat packer who ...
Rolling the DICE: William Nordhaus's dubious case for a carbon tax.(Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to AI Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the public's growing awareness of and concern about anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. Many climatologists and other relevant scientists claim that emissions of ...
Justice and climate change: toward a libertarian analysis.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... As a group, libertarians have not dent well with the prospect of anthropogenic global climate change. As most parts of the world scramble to find "solutions" to what they anticipate will be a serious problem for human civilization, libertarians have often brushed the issue aside by denying ...
Why are there so few female top executives in egalitarian welfare states?(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... During the twentieth century, dramatic changes occurred in the economic situation of women across developed economics in the West. Only two or three generations ago, most women were restricted to low-paying occupations with bleak career prospects. In recent years, the women's share in ...