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Bob Higgs, here [2] and here [3], disabuses anyone with open eyes of the notion that a mania for laissez faire swept the USA over the past thirty years.
And here [4], Scott Horton interviews Bob Higgs on Antiwar Radio about the current economic crisis.
Tibor Machan discusses medical-care ‘rights [5].’
Tony Blankley sees socialism – or what the translated Tocqueville called “soft despotism” – dividing America [6]. (HT Lyle Albaugh)
Nelson Schwartz, writing in the New York Times, has some nice things to say about speculators [7]. (HT Peter Minowitz)
And, on (much) lighter notes: This chart (done in 2000) comparing Salma Hayek to F.A [8]. (HT John Farrier) And this evidence of competition [9] (from Carpe Diem’s Mark Perry).