By Sep 04,2012

Deregulate moonshine

If you take the rural Tennessee back roads that meander east out of my home county of Rutherford and into Cannon County, you’ll soon find yourself at the front gates...

By Aug 29,2012

You need to read poetry

Poetry, says Plato, has no good place in a well-ordered society. The power it exercises over people can be dangerous, he believes, and the crowd it attracts is often undesirable....

By Aug 16,2012

Bureaucrats with a beatific vision

Few things are as enduring and permanent in American politics as the administrative state.  The endless list of federal agencies—including such vital commissions as the “Board of Tea Appeals”—gives crushing...