Lifestyle
Reflections on the here and now.
- The Road From Serfdom Marian L. Tupy 11/07/2009
- Given the renewed interest in alternatives to capitalism, it is perhaps appropriate to recall the last time that socialism was tried with real gusto.
- How Prosperous Are We? Roger Bate 11/03/2009
- The Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index goes a long way toward addressing shortcomings in other measurements of people’s well-being around the world.
- Beauty, Art, and Darwin Roger Sandall 10/08/2009
- It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from?
- The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals Blake Hurst 07/30/2009
- Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand.
- As American as…Cricket Roger Bate 07/03/2009
- Cricket and baseball are twin brothers, separated at birth.
- A Fat Tax That’s Hard to Swallow Alex Brill and Aparna Mathur 06/12/2009
- Your beverage might soon contain the cost of universal healthcare.
- Lord of the Ringtones Thomas J. Van Gilder and Michael M. Rosen 05/22/2009
- Are mobile devices liberating or enslaving us?
- Hate the Sin, Tax the Sinner? Rev. Robert A. Sirico 05/20/2009
- An excise tax on those goods that elected officials deem morally suspect has come roaring back. But the temptation to impose sin taxes is one that should be resisted for economic and moral reasons.
- The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class Joel Kotkin 05/13/2009
- The sustainable city of the future will rest on the revival of traditional institutions that have faded in many of today’s cities.
- The News of God’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated Evan Sparks 04/13/2009
- Two Economist magazine writers weigh in on the global revival of faith.