Winter 2008 • Vol. 3, No. 4
Features
Economics, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Capitalism and the Moral High Ground
Concretizes the selfishness-enabling nature of capitalism and shows why this feature makes it the only moral social system on earth.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Reason or Faith: The Republican Alternative
Analyzes the resounding Republican defeat and shows that the party faces a fundamental decision that will determine whether it orchestrates a comeback or stumbles into further defeat.
Economics, Politics & Rights
Net Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet
Focuses on the principle of property rights as it applies to the Internet in the face of increasing calls for government controls of this, as yet, relatively free market.
Economics
Bubble Boy: Alan Greenspan’s Rejection of Reason and Morality
Exposes Greenspan as anything but a principled capitalist whose free-market ideas somehow failed.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
The Assault on Energy Producers
Surveys various ways in which the government violates the rights of energy producers and thereby impedes our supply of energy and raises prices on everything in the marketplace.
Good Living, Science & Technology
Demystifying Newton: The Force Behind the Genius
Presents key evidence in support of the basic motive that drove Isaac Newton to decode the nature of the physical world, and leaves the widely accepted Freudian view of his motive wanting.
Science & Technology
Errors in Inductive Reasoning
Examines several illustrative cases in which scientists failed to employ the principles of inductive logic properly and thereby arrived at faulty conclusions.
Book Reviews
Economics, Reviews
Review: New Deal or Raw Deal?, by Burton Folsom Jr.
Eric Daniels reviews New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton Folsom Jr.
History, Reviews
Review: Better Day Coming, by Adam Fairclough
Gus Van Horn reviews Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890–2000, by Adam Fairclough.
Departments
Economics
Letters and Replies, Winter 2008–2009
Raymond C. Niles replies to a letter about the California power grid.