The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet ….

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to Ameri….

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive..

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it..

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s..

I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to p….

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger..

B students work for C students - A students teach..

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild….

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience….

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works..

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-belie….

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it..

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting..

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor….

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal..

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and….

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic..

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when….

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you….

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silv….