Hope Rides Eternal is the deeply moving story of U.S. army Sergeant Eddie Jeffers, who was killed in Iraq on 19 September. Eddie was the author of Freedom Feels Good, which started off as a letter to his father. Both articles are worth reading and worth forwarding to your friends.

Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Professor of Nuclear Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad Pakistan, has written an intensely insightful analysis of the problems of science in the Islamic world titled Science and the Islamic world — The Quest for Rapprochement. The entire article is well worth...

In most the United States, it’s a crime to kill yourself. This is a gross encroachment of government into individual rights. As John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will,...

Doing Business: Economy Rankings is a useful tool for the citizens of 175 nations to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of their governments. Looking at the list, the most striking thing is how clear it is that the nations with governments which do not interfere with business enjoy the most economic...

On Monday, the U.N. released a report which announced that the United States “leads the world in labor productivity.” Thank you Captain Obvious! While the complement certainly is nice, it’s also good to remember that the U.S. is largely funded by tax dollars which are extracted by force...

We do so much business with China that we often forget just how bizarrely inhuman the Chinese government really is. Luckily, the Chinese government figured out a way to remind us of their bureaucratic stupidity without actually murdering anyone this time. The boys in Beijing have banned Buddhist Monks...