It s good for government to privatize operations that belong in the marketplace. But unless it does so all the way, the taxpayers will still be on the hook. Christopher Mayer explains. Before we can know if government works for the common good, we have to know what the common good is. Edward Younkins unpacks this much-abused concept.
Government programs come dressed up in the rhetoric of the general welfare.
But as Roger Clites reminds us, they all come down to one thing. Lawrence Reed doesn t like what the Census Bureau plans to count this year. Doug Bandow evaluates America s East Asian policy. Dwight Lee calls for freedom of the price. Thomas Szasz revisits psychiatry s paradigmatic disease.