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We Have Nothing to Fear but the Fear of Fracking

Opposition to fracking is only the latest example of a more fundamental opposition to technological progress. In fact, these objections…

Regulated to Death: Cap-and-Trade Suffocates a Life Well-lived

Never in human history has our existence been so clean, secure, and rich with possibility. The lifeblood of it all…

The Right to Light: Don’t Let Washington Ban the Incandescent Bulb

The motive behind the [light bulb] ban exhibits the same collectivist paternalism seen in Anthem. As a consequence, the ban…

Campus Media Response: Without Oil, Kiss your iPhone Good-bye

Writing in the Texas Tech Daily Toreador Chris Leal asks us to ponder a puzzle: It seems as if we…

Campus Media Response: Don’t Return to 1970s Economic Anemia

Lamenting BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Costigan of the University of Oregon’s Daily Herald calls for…

Campus Media Response: Punishing Coal: Truly Criminal

Crime and Punishment: Jumping off the coal train, April 7, 2009 The Stanford Daily Stanford University Madame— Your article, “Crime…

Death and Carbon Taxes

In the early 1960s, President Kennedy challenged America to make what would be a giant leap for mankind by putting…