Against Politics

Toward a depoliticized society

Politicized health insurance

Heather Mac Donald draws attention to the gradual transformation of private  health insurers to highly regulated providers of entitlements:

Democrats (and some Republicans) regularly bash health insurance companies for not covering preexisting conditions.  But isn’t that like expecting a home insurance company to write a policy for fire after your house has already burned down?  Health [...]

The destruction of self-help by state intervention

The Independent Institute’s quarterly Independent  Review is a worthy publication. The journal produces well researched and innovative scholarly articles in the classical liberal tradition, avoiding excessive emphasis on “public policy libertarianism” on the one hand, and avoiding an exclusive emphasis on a single school of economic thought (such as Austrian Economics) on the other. The [...]