My review of Hardy Green’s The Company Town is in today’s Wall Street Journal.

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?

Are not the most educated people in America the fastest squanderers of ancient sunlight?

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact that it recently has been bisected – rent in two – by the Liberty National Golf Course.

We’re not filling the gas tank. We’re inflating a fantasy.

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry’s Great Economy.

Our military is off defending Afghanistan and Iraq from themselves while our Financial Titans are rescued to live another day of utterly neglecting the welfare of the Republic.

If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.

Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?

Though he had passionately opposed Hitler from the very beginning and had striven to protect the helpless from the SS, neither Americans nor English shed many tears for Moltke when he was put to death by the Führer’s henchmen in 1945.

A riff on Thomas Frank’s thesis in “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” asking why wealthy voters in Blue States like Connecticut have been apparently voting against their economic interests by electing higher-taxing Democrats

Whenever I hear someone claim that “our enemies hate us for our freedom,” I think first of the USS Vincennes and July 3rd, 1988. Twenty-two years ago today, Vincennes was as sophisticated as warships came and by far the most powerful surface vessel on Persian Gulf patrol.

The economy is on the mend, if indicators of increasing quantities of garbage and waste are to be trusted. Economists celebrate our return to growth.

Regulation, as we all know, was merely a demonic attempt by closet communists to deprive us of our liberties. And the markets, being made of of sophisticated buyers and sellers was self-regulating, so the government could just bug-out. This was an article of religious faith.

You never thought it was all the fault of the railroads, did you? Neither did I.

Legendary investor Seth Klaman on how the government has taught everyone a bad lesson.

Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?

Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.