This issue highlights the stubborn persistence of economic fallacies and shows how false assumptions—rather than markets themselves—produce social and political conflict. Contributors analyze education reform, compulsory unionism, and new forms of bureaucratic expansion. The issue also revisits historical lessons about liberty, critiques command-and-control environmental policy, and explains why voluntary action consistently outperforms state planning.

This issue opens with an exploration of human creativity, emphasizing how freedom enables innovation while coercion stifles it. Other essays discuss welfare reform, the moral foundations of economic life, and the perverse incentives embedded in government programs. Additional articles examine education, regulation, and the philosophical roots of a free society.

This issue critiques economic and political “leveling” schemes, arguing that attempts to impose equality undermine both justice and prosperity. Contributors analyze housing policy failures, misguided environmental legislation, and the moral hazards inherent in state-managed welfare. Essays on education, constitutional meaning, professional licensing, and the power of ideas complete the issue.

This issue challenges symbolic legislation and the growing tendency to substitute political gestures for effective policy, emphasizing the importance of personal responsibility over public spectacle. Additional articles examine international trade, privatization, urban transportation, and widespread confusion about inflation. The issue also explores historical conceptions of freedom, critiques regulation in diverse industries, and reviews recent works on economics and political philosophy.

This issue examines the collapse of central planning in Russia and argues that sustainable recovery requires strong property rights, price freedom, and legal stability rather than Western-style technocratic management. Essays critique the philosophical confusion behind modern egalitarianism, analyze market failures in public schooling, and explore the dangers of politicizing science and culture. Additional articles address transportation policy, monetary misconceptions, the moral hazards of group privilege, and the enduring strength of voluntary institutions.

This issue reflects on the moral meaning of money, the cultural and civilizational impact of Christianity, and the debate over whether markets in the post-Cold War world will be genuinely free or subtly controlled. Contributors question the constitutional limits of federal regulatory power, expose abuses in child-protective systems, and defend freedom of contract against monopolistic unionism. Additional essays explore linguistic order, Austrian critiques of welfare economics, supply-side complacency, and the distortions created by government involvement in credit markets.

This issue examines the moral and philosophical roots of a free society, arguing that liberty cannot be preserved through economics alone. Articles critique activist antitrust policy, explore the explosion of laws and lawyers, and highlight how private enterprise—from animal parks to auto manufacturing—outperforms politicized systems. Additional pieces address state health-insurance regulations, government failures in foster care, and the universal benefits of free trade.

This issue explores the deep structural failures of American public education and the historical case for private, voluntary schooling. Authors critique voucher schemes as pseudo-market reforms, trace the nation’s long tradition of private education, and examine alternatives such as homeschooling. The issue argues that education thrives when school and state are separated and when parents—not bureaucracies—retain control.

This issue analyzes the moral foundations of business, the cultural hostility toward capitalism, and the long-term consequences of America’s shifting values. Articles explore Hollywood’s depictions of commerce, the risk of a looming “brain drain,” and the overlooked burden placed on consumers in trade debates. Additional essays address labor strikes, political leadership, higher-education failures, and the lasting influence of free-trade pioneer Richard Cobden.

This issue explores the sweeping growth of government in America and argues that rising taxation threatens the voluntary sector. Authors examine the principles citizens should use to judge politicians, reflect on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, and analyze how state fiscal choices shape economic outcomes. Additional pieces show the hidden costs of government spending and review new works on public finance, property rights, and health-care policy.

This issue offers a global tour of economic lessons, contrasting Mexico’s cronyism, Argentina’s decline, Eastern Europe’s post-communist struggles, and Vietnam’s continued collectivist stagnation. A series of case studies shows how government policy impoverishes nations—from Ecuador’s agriculture to Romania’s medical system. Other essays revisit the Confederate Constitution and highlight charitable entrepreneurship as a humane alternative to state control.

This issue critiques the growing use of regulation as a tool for covert property seizures and warns against government intrusion into medicine, transportation, and housing. Essays defend the ethical foundations of property rights and capitalism while explaining why airline deregulation has benefited the public. Additional pieces examine rent control’s dangerous precedents, the meaning of sexual harassment laws, and the politicization of medical practice.