A Week in a (Sort of) Libertarian Country, Part 1, Freedom Daily, Jun 2005
Related Topics: Costa Rica, Movimiento Libertario
"You quickly get the feeling that anything can happen in San Jose. People were going everywhere. The shops were all open, and vendors were doing brisk trade all along the streets (and sometimes literally in the streets: sellers would walk right out into traffic when cars were stopped at traffic lights)."

A Week in a (Sort of) Libertarian Country, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Jul 2005
Related Topics: Costa Rica, Movimiento Libertario
"The Republic of Costa Rica has no army. The country. ... with a population of around 4 million people (including 50,000 North American expatriates), is proudly neutral. Its constitution dates to 1949 ... By Latin American standards, Costa Rica is extremely stable and wealthy, with the average annual income around $9,000."

Animal Rights Absurdity, 22 Oct 2003
Related Topic: Rights

Better Them Than Us, 19 Jan 2004
Related Topics: Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Brazil, John R. Lott, Jr., United Kingdom

Feeding Obesity, 13 Feb 2004
Related Topic: Personal Responsibility

Government Interventionism in Ireland, Part 1, Freedom Daily, May 2004
Related Topics: Ireland, United Kingdom
"In 1914, Britain ... was experiencing the tremendous material benefits of a century of laissez-faire economic policies. In Ireland, the most visible advantages of 19th-century capitalism could be seen in Ulster, where industries thrived and living standards soared, relative to the rest of the country."

Government Interventionism in Ireland, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Jun 2004
Related Topics: Ireland, Ludwig von Mises
"Had Irish nationalists espoused a philosophy of true political freedom ... rather than one of government interventionism, statism, and political control, ... the majority of unionists would ... have been .... more prepared to see the Home Rule Act as no threat to their British values."

Private Roads and the Economics of the Environment, 6 Aug 2003
Related Topic: Private Roads

Roads, Cars, and Responsibility, 7 Apr 2004
Related Topics: Private Roads, Fairfax, Virginia, London, England, Personal Responsibility, Singapore

Should Government Run Churches … or Schools?, 27 Dec 2002
Related Topic: Freedom of Religion

The Education Debate We're Not Having, 15 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Compulsory Education
"All this handwringing over the best way to pay for public schools distracts us from a far more important point: that we are dealing, first and last, with a broken system — and one that is inherently defective. Rather than patch it up with more money, we ought to try a different approach. Few dare speak of it, ... but an alternative to public schools does exist."

The Gun-Control Tide Is Turning, 4 Aug 2003
Related Topic: Right to Keep and Bear Arms

To Homeschool or Not to Homeschool: How Both Sides Got It Wrong, Part 1, 19 Sep 2003
Related Topic: Homeschooling

To Homeschool or Not to Homeschool: How Both Sides Got it Wrong, Part 2, 24 Sep 2003
Related Topic: Homeschooling

What Crisis?, 18 Sep 2006
Related Topics: Rights, Health Care
"... the root of the problem is a total breakdown in our society of any understanding of the concept of individual rights ... Were it otherwise, patients and health-care workers alike would stop making spurious arguments about their alleged rights and accept responsibility for their lifestyle choices — whether it's a patient who needs to find a new pharmacist or an ambulance driver who should find a new line of work."