Author: AF Editors

By Oct 24,2011

The Making of a Mentor

The Happy Warrior Why and how someone becomes a Libertarian varies from person to person. For Bryan Caplan, one of America’s leading economists, it all started with a little book...

By Oct 17,2011

The Making of a Mentor

Profiling the talented economics professors who are inspiring the next generation of libertarians. A Kid in a Candy Store   Many libertarians experience a gradual migration to the movement, perhaps...

By Oct 05,2011

A Libertarian Moment?

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America By Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch PublicAffairs, 288 pp., $25.99   For budding libertarians, certain issues of...

By Aug 11,2009

Hermits and Harlots

“Women and fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929, “remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” Eighty years later, women and fiction no longer seem so problematic. Indeed, they...

By Apr 08,2009

The Folly of Sin Taxation

Powered by governments and self-satisfied members of the public, a trend has formed around dissuading people from unhealthy lifestyles. The strategies include gouging the public with new taxes and spending...

By Mar 30,2009

The Russian Reset and Europe

Europe will be closely watching as leaders of its two most important partners—Russia and America—meet for the first time on April 1 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in...