Like Ike?
TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."
What is American?
While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are all around us.
On the Porch with Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.
Why I Shouldn’t Have To Pay Federal Tax On My IPA
If you want a reason to reach for a beer, read this piece, preferably at a bar featuring IPA’s during Happy Hour.
Medaille and Manufacturing
The book does a great service in dismantling economic shibboleths about trade, money, labor, and markets, and then reconstructing them along different premises that conform with both human happiness and economic efficiency.
Commentary on John Medaille’s Toward a Truly Free Market
It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.
As Goes Reid, So Goes America (Maybe, Unfortunately)
Harry Reid's election in Nevada is all about an argument over the direction of the American system. Would that we could argue about the nature of that system instead.
The Cost of Everything
Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.