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The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became <em>about</em> the process too

Cry Out America event planned for Louisville on Sept. 11

The IMF has told us in no uncertain terms that corruption and waste have to be brought under control. Yet, a minister would directly solicit a bribe from a Japanese company and get away with it. Doesn’t the Cabinet have any control over officials who change the conditions in the tender, and decide to buy […]

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

The economist Friedrich Hayek attempted in his writings to spotlight the interlocking set of ideas¬—constructivist rationalism, scientism, socialism, “the engineering mentality”—that was leading the West down what he famously called the road to serfdom and to propose in its place a return to a revitalized form of classical liberalism. In this essay, Professor Bruce Caldwell draws upon the writings of Hayek, other Austrian economists, and public choice theorists to distill 10 fundamental...

Your View: The author reflects on his various meetings and near meetings with famous people.

When the facts change, what do you do? Today we begin a new series on changing our minds. When it happens, why it happens, and how we are rewarded -- in business, in investing, and in life.

That big question was the focus of a Tuesday gathering of progressive lawmakers, activists and scholars.

<p>Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.</p>

Branko Milanovic reviews The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, written by historian Jamie Martin.