March 19, 2008

Wednesday, March 19

Anthony Gregory is the guest editor today.

Thomas Edison Rolls in His Grave

His light bulb has been banned. Column by B.R. Merrick.

The Myth of the Rule of Law

Paper by John Hasnas, deconstructing the fallacy of Constitutionalism.

Bubbles, Bailouts and the Coming Stagflation

Scott Horton interviews Bob Murphy on the nefarious and destructive Federal Reserve.

The Collapse of American Power

“Noam Chomsky recently wrote that America thinks that it owns the world. That is definitely the view of the neoconized Bush administration. But the fact of the matter is that the US owes the world. The US 'superpower' cannot even finance its own domestic operations, much less its gratuitous wars except via the kindness of foreigners to lend it money that cannot be repaid.” Column by Paul Craig Roberts.

Immigrants as Contamination

The environmentalists, protectionists, nativists, public-health nationalists and economic utilitarians are all wrong: Free migration is an end in itself. Column by Nathalie Rothschild.

“God Damn America” in Black and White

“Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright are in hot water. Newspapers and news stations across the world have been reporting on Wright’s ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ (as Obama’s campaign is calling it) in 2003 when he called upon his Chicago congregation to reject the hymn ‘God Bless America ’ and instead shout ‘God Damn America.’ Wright denounced the United States for historically advocating terrorism for its own purposes, for refusing to offer help to the hopeless, and for oppressing minorities. . . . What is striking, historically, is that there is nothing new in Wright’s sermon and how often African American perspectives on so-called American Christian nationalism are ignored.” Column by Edward J. Blum.