Rio is on again. From June 20-22 there is yet another big cheese gabfest meant to save the planet. The Rio+20 is the fourth “Earth…
In Part One of this article I very briefly laid out some of my concerns about libertarianism in general. I noted that as a Christian…
Sometimes stuff is better when rehashed or reused. I just had some refried beans for lunch, and it is a great component to a Mexican…
With the current round of leftist protests in the US, especially targeting Wall Street and the wealthy, I find it a continued source of fascination…
Much mischief has been done under the guise of “social justice”. The term has a nice ring to it, but it is a phrase which…
The Greens thrive on alarmist scenarios, hoping to terrorise people – even children – into giving up basic freedoms in the interests of supposedly saving…
It may not seem like a great time to be talking about good news in the book world. After all, news headlines report that 2,500…
With the Christmas holidays coming up, there is a bit of spare time for the good things in life, such as reading. But as is…
Isaac Publishing, 2008. Sharia finance is meant to be an interest-free banking and finance system, and it now operates in various Muslim nations. Some Muslims…
All over the Western world governments are bending over backwards to accommodate sharia finance. This is an interest-free banking and finance system which Muslims want…
An important book appeared in 1946 by Henry Hazlitt entitled Economics In One Easy Lesson. The central thesis of his volume is summed up in…
This is a brief bibliography on some notable books on the broad area of the environment, with subsections on climate change and population matters. What…
Much ink has been spilt on the current global economic crisis. I am no economist, so my contribution to the debate will depend largely on…
Paris is in town. Paris Hilton that is. And with her there is a whirlwind circus of the media and adoring fans. I have yet…
Every once in a while I am asked what I am reading, so I usually produce a column such as this. Now for those folks…
Hollywood often cranks out films which are far from friendly toward the free market. The 1987 Wall Street (with the memorable Michael Douglas line, “Greed…
The G20 Summit in Melbourne is now history, as is the Australian tour of U2. Both tried to grapple with the issue of world poverty.…
There were some very interesting comments about faith and politics made recently by a Victorian Labor MP. Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said that we all…
Harvard Business School Publishing, 2006. The fact that this book is published by the Harvard Business School and the author is a professor there tells…
A reader of this site posted a comment in which he (rightly, I believe) questioned whether I am correct to align myself with more-or-less the…