Newly added on the main page:

“Epic Bail” — Sheldon Richman on the bailout and nationalization of the banks. “Paulson insists that his acquisition of equity, which smacks of 1920s Italian fascism, will involve no government influence over the banks. This is hard to believe…”

“Untied States” — John Schwenkler on secessionist movements old and new, and the impetus behind them. “The idea of political separatism is, as Middlebury Institute founder Kirkpatrick Sale puts it, ‘as American as America.'”

“The Right to Remain Silent” — Austin Bramwell on non-movement conservatives, including Joseph Schumpeter, Jane Jacobs, and … Noam Chomsky? “Hate Noam Chomsky as much as you please. It remains the case that Chomsky’s theory of a universal grammar not only revived the study of human nature but provided a model of how complex features of human society could be explained more generally.”