The Open Market Blog

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Over the Holidays, I sought to catch up on some long-deferred reading. One book, Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins was on that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Robert Samuelson wrote a recent column, “Myths and the Middle Class,” quoting statistics that indicate that only 2 percent of Americans see themselves as…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

A news item (from researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle) found that cinnamon and vanilla levels in the Puget Sound rose over…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 01/08/2007

Thomas Sowell wrote a series of columns recently seeking to deconstruct the Left’s confusion over “fairness.” Their ideal, as many have noted, seems to be…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/07/2007

It should be expected that climate doomsayers would try to seize the unseasonal warm weather the Northeastern U.S. has been experiencing as another “sign” of impending global…