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Why do the poor drop out of college?
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One Light Bulb: $47.00
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Battered Food Police and the Battle Against Trans Fats
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Save the Planet, Reward Your Friends, Get Reelected
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Executive Summary of Peer-reviewed GW Science
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Markets Greener than Green Buidling Lobby
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Is the Department of Pre-Regulation Coming Soon?
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State attorneys general target social networking sites
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A Lone Dissident Uncovers the Terrifying Truth Behind Government-Issued Carbon Offsets
What with the current mania for carbon offsets, I should have known it would happen eventually. In addition to the already burgeoning crowd of…
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Alarming Waste
Today’s Washington Post includes a story on bisphenol A, a chemical that has been used to make flexible, clear plastic products–including baby bottles–since the…
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Jenkins in the WSJ on the subprime shambles
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.’s piece in the Wall Street Journal today (“Payback,” subscription required) is a thoughtful and cogent assessment of some aspects of…
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Kyoto? That is Illogical, Captain
The head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, has admitted that the principle behind the Kyoto Protocol is “illogical.”…
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Heritage to Congress: Ratify FTA with Colombia
Over at The Heritage Foundation, James M. Roberts, in a paper titled “The U.S.—Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement: Don’t Let Progress Fall Victim to D.C.
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No such thing as a victimless ban
UK Telegraph columnist A.N. Wilson weighs in on a little-noticed pernicious effect of nanny statism. What do the following have in common:…
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Crash Across America Rolls On
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Gender Bias in the Courts — and in The Washington Post
For a glaring example of gender bias in the courts (and the media), you need look no further than The Washington Post story today…
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Jacoby on global warming — part 2
I missed until today Jeff Jacoby’s second article on global warming science in the Boston Globe on Saturday. (Hans had blogged about the…
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“Political pandering” on trade
The Denver Post yesterday ran an excellent editorial about the negative climate for free trade, with a focus on “election-year political pandering.” Here are…
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Fund on Mine Your Own Business
Today in OpinionJournal.com, John Fund looks at the environmentalist-led campaign against a proposed mine in Rosia Montana, Romania, documented in the film Mine…
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Ugly Purse, $52,500. . .and, as Cartman would say, ‘You Can’t Have It!’
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Why Wi-Fi?
David Robinson at The American said my last blog post on Wi-Fi was intriguing and asked me to write a piece for him. I can’t…
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Out on the Experimental Economics Frontier
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation — more corn acreage, more pollution
Growing more corn for ethanol in the mid-Atlantic region will mean increased pollution in rivers, streams and the Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation…
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FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill: A Trojan Horse?
PR Watch has an interesting story on the cynical baptist-bootlegger alliance behind the bill to give the FDA oversight over the tobacco industry, which…
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Peru’s Post-Earthquake Prospects
The horrendous devastation of the recent earthquake in Peru could only have been exacerbated by government incompetence. That's my conclusion after reading Ian Vazquez's…
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DDT Deniers Deny Science
DDT-deniers—those who would rather let people die that allow DDT use to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes—have been critiquing our blog posts on the topic…
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The Uncreative Indestructibility of Modern Farming
Over at the Mises Institute’s website, Dan McLaughlin highlights a little-discussed pernicious effect of U.S. farm policy: the short-circuiting of the market’s creative destruction.
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DDT Saves Africans from Malaria
Donald Roberts has an interesting Op-Ed in the New York Times about the crucial role of DDT in preventing the spread of malaria in…
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In Defense of the Prix Fixe Menu
Our old pal Peter Suderman, now writing for FreedomWorks, has a great takedown of the argument for “a la carte” cable pricing up at…
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What Gives in South Carolina?
I’m writing this from the new library in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. It’s a big, open all glass building that I wouldn’t want to be…