Daniel Wahl reviews How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes, by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff.

Daniel Wahl reviews Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History, by John David Lewis.

Examines the life of Richard Feynman, and finds this great scientist and educator to be heroic in more ways than meet the eye.

"Social Security is the most successful social program in the history of the world," says Harry Reid, the Democratic senator of Nevada. Investors Business Daily replies: Successful? A program that socks future generations with trillions in higher taxes and lower standards of living? A program that's already running in the…

On this day in 1992, a young Muslim woman stood on a train platform with only a duffel bag, a tenacious spirit, and an active mind. These were all she needed now. Before she wrote a best-selling autobiography, the stories of her childhood would have sounded as foreign to Westerners as…

In a previous blog post I showed how the Securities and Exchange Commission has wielded power, assaulted businesses, and ignored fraud. Now it appears that the SEC colluded with the Obama administration to assault Goldman Sachs, boost the administration’s chances of passing the financial “reform” bill, and line the coffers…

In a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily, Thomas Sowell explains why Obama’s economic policies are bad for the economy: The current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a feature article about businesses that are just holding on to huge sums of money. They say, for example, that the pharmaceutical company…

Forbes recently published an argument against the stimulus bill, focusing on its so-called “dark side.” A little over a year ago the Obama administration passed a staggering $787 billion stimulus package designed to rescue the economy. More than half of that money has now been spent, and the economy is…

Anyone concerned with freedom in the financial markets should read this new, internal review by the SEC, in which the Commission admits that it: failed to “take appropriate action” related to fraud at Allied Capital, a politically-connected company staffed with former SEC employees; did not visit Allied’s offices a single…

Daniel Wahl reviews The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, by Gregory Zuckerman.

Daniel Wahl reviews Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by Susan Jacoby.

In his commencement speech to University of Michigan graduates, President Obama quoted one of the Founders saying that America was a republic. Immediately thereafter he claimed—either ignorantly or dishonestly—that America was instead a democracy and that Americans must do two things in order to keep it. “American democracy has thrived,”…

James Oberstar, a representative from Minnesota, is attempting to rewrite the Clean Water Act so that the government has control of all waters—not just those that are navigable. This includes everything from puddles and ponds to irrigation ditches. Investors Business Daily points out that farmers should be concerned. “The Oberstar…

[caption id="attachment_31275" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Ensceptico[/caption] Following thinly-veiled death threats by a Muslim group against Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the creators of South Park) for portraying Mohammed dressed as a bear in a cartoon, Anderson Cooper interviewed the author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I grew up as a…

The police recently evacuated the media from a small protest that, apparently, someone in Washington didn’t want Americans to see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBk1dUF9nM And, as the video of that encounter spreads, it’s worth recalling what John Lewis pointed out in his article “Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda”:…