Michael D. Brown

It’s Friday Night in the Big Town of Denver, Colorado, so time for another caption this contest. Tonight I’ll be interviewing Barry Fey, the rock concert promoter who has sold more concert tickets than any promoter in history. He’s written a new book called Backstage Past which has a collector’s First Edition poster of a [...]

Charles Murray has come out with a new book, Coming Apart in which he analyzes the difference between the upper middle class American and the middle-class American. Although such generalizations are difficult to make, the book posits an interesting question – what is the effect of those in upper echelon of American society who actively [...]

The political season has arrived in full force and people are already harping about getting the money out of politics. That statement is so trite because without money, the political process would not work. Money enables candidates to spread their message, print materials, buy advertising on television, newspapers, websites. Money allows candidates to hire researchers [...]

The economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was based on a system of state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, industrial manufacturing and centralized administrative planning. The economy was characterised by state control of investment, public ownership of industrial assets, and during the last 20 years of its existence, pervasive [...]

What are you? I am a husband, father, son, brother, cousin, man, male, middle-age, Caucasian and part Indian (oops, Native American), Republican, Libertarian, conservative, dog-lover (and owner) and ad infinitum. You are as many if not more things, too. I’ve been confused. But I never wanted to be a girl, or a woman, or a [...]