Public Square
What's happening in the "third places" beyond home and work.
- Lose-Lose on Biofuels? Ted Gayer 05/26/2009
- Forcing the market to produce large amounts of renewable fuel will harm consumers. Even though it reduces some emissions, it increases others.
- Obama’s Guantanamo Problem—And Ours James Glassman 05/22/2009
- Gitmo requires deep thought, not glib pronouncements. It also requires a dose of reality.
- Averting Disasters Jessica Leval and Andrew Mener 05/22/2009
- Some ideas on how to fix FEMA.
- 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.
- Consider the Source Roger Bate and Karen Porter 05/19/2009
- A recent case reveals that it is not only generic firms from middle-income countries that have problems with good manufacturing practice.
- What is Driving Rising Healthcare Costs? Dustin Chambers 05/18/2009
- Our healthcare system is in trouble today because we have consistently ignored market-oriented solutions and instead sought out policies based on public finance and top-down regulation.
- Decoding the Use of Gene Patents John E. Calfee 05/15/2009
- In good news, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resisted researchers' overreaching in their patenting of genes, and researchers’ work is seldom compromised by patents.
- 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.
- Busting Healthcare Myths Robert Goldberg 05/11/2009
- To fix American healthcare, it's important to avoid some common misconceptions.
- Why the Chrysler Deal Would Horrify a New Dealer David A. Skeel Jr. 05/08/2009
- The use of a sham sale of the sort the New Dealers thought they had forever eliminated will cause mischief in future bankruptcy cases.