2003 – Joseph Bast | Writing

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Drug importation at first glance seems to be about free trade, healthy competition, and saving taxpayers money. On closer inspection, it is none of those things.

Essays

What’s Wrong with Importing Drugs from Canada?

December 1, 2003

There’s nothing automatic about the victory of freedom over tyranny. We need to fight this battle every day.

Essays

Liberals Can’t Solve the Vision Thing

November 1, 2003

Flying on United shows Thomas Hobbes was right. Our politeness and civility are only skin deep, shed as easily as a snake sheds its skin.

Essays

Flying on United with Thomas Hobbes

October 1, 2003

Capitalism once did a superior job providing K-12 schooling in the United States, and it would do so once again if the public could overcome its fear of markets and economics.

Books

Education and Capitalism

October 1, 2003

Individual freedom, democratic government, capitalism, and voluntary cooperation are the exceptions in human history, not the rule.

Essays

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

September 1, 2003

Paying farmers and livestock producers to sequester carbon would lead to heavy-handed and potentially ruinous regulation of farms and ranches.

Essays

How to Catch a Farmer

August 1, 2003

America seems to be experiencing a steep and disturbing decline in honesty.

Essays

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

July 1, 2003

Opponents of school choice demonize vouchers by tapping public confusion about and fear of competition, profits, and prices. The anti-choice campaign is really a thinly veiled anti-capitalism campaign.

Essays

The School Choice Paradox

June 1, 2003

I hope this answers any questions you might have had about last month’s Heartlander. May you live long and prosper!

Essays

Behind ‘Looking Backward’

May 1, 2003

The invention of the semantic (voice-activated) Web in 2008, personal implanted computers (PICs) in 2009, and the virtual reality chair in 2014 fueled the global economic transformation.

Essays

Looking Backward

April 1, 2003