So, today a second US aircraft carrier has entered the Persian Gulf to "send a message to Iran," presumably about their supposedly...

Jon Bailes and Cihan Aksan of the online publication, state of nature, conducted an online interview with me regarding my book, The Confisca...

I have only read a hundred pages of Naomi Klein's shocked doctrine, but I thought that it was a very valuable work so far. It should not...

In yesterday's Style section of the Washington Post there was an article by Monica Hesse, "Can You Handle It? Truth, Better Yet: Do...

I was talking to a Costco manager who told me that sales of most items are flat, but liquor sales are brisk. The New York Times reports on a...

Juan Cole at http://www.juancole.com today posted a letter from an "informed reader" that makes some rather telling points about t...

by the Sandwichman This is just bizarre: The idea that forcing elderly workers out of the labor market before the statutory age of retiremen...

What follows is not an economic question. I have no expertise in genetic engineering, though I am a skeptic, worried about possible conseq...

Lost in the huffing and puffing over Obama's "bittergate" remarks on gun owners is the fact that he and the rest of the leadin...

by the Sandwichman I've been thinking about an offer I made some three-and-a-half years ago, in October 2004, on MaxSpeak. At the time, ...

by the Sandwichman Wendell Berry has an essay in the May Harper's Magazine , "Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits." The co...

I’ve started working on a project related to the Western Climate Initiative, a process underway between seven US states and two Canadian pro...

I know something about this demographic; they are my relatives: my parents are both Irish catholics from Philadelphia, both first-generation...

How is it that the bastards that run the country are able to turn their mistakes into opportunities? Energy shortages demand the eliminatio...

I would have signed that letter complaining about the questions asked by ABC's Gibson and Stephanopolous if someone had asked me to. Ho...