The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/18/2007

Markets are wonderful. If there is a demand, markets will arise to fill it. Including the desire to feel good about oneself. How else should…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/04/2007

Government social engineering doesn't work. It's rarely just. It is even less likely to be effective. That is the lesson of just about every government…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/03/2007

There is much that occurs in Washington that irritates — and irritates mightily. One of my pet peeves is how welfare statists greedy for extra…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

Washington, D.C. is a wonderful place. Perhaps its hallmark is the lack of shame. A qualification for high office is being able to engage in…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

There's been quite a buzz recently on the second anniversary of Hurricane Kartrina's destruction of New Orleans. Presidential contender Barack Obama even offered a…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…