The Stanford Experiment - 1959 Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith Would you lie for a dollar? In this classic experiment conducted at Stanford University, men were recruited to participate in an unknown study. The men assigned the monotonous and...

Is whats shaking the economic landscape just a simple banking crisis? Or is there as so many feel, and as the tremors indicate something more hidden just beneath the surface? Lets begin with a quick explanation from the ever-incisive Tyler Cowen....

John McCain believes we're better off economically today than we were eight years ago. The American people know that's not true — they're feeling the effects of high gas prices, lost jobs, and a housing crisis. Voters continually rank the...

Ok, here this goes. Our government has far too much control over our lives. They control whether we can smoke in bars, where we can drill for oil, when we will research this or that. Next you know, they'll be trying to tell us what's unhealthy, oh...