The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.