John Berlau is a journalist and policy analyst known for his writing on regulatory issues, environmental policy, and media criticism. He is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on financial regulation and property rights. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1995 and 2006 covering topics ranging from environmentalism to taxation and cultural politics.
GIVEN THE PASTING PRESIDENT BUSH has taken over the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one might have assumed the president's critics were in agreement about how to prevent such disasters. But for years now, the left has been deeply ambivalent about the most logical and time-tested…
NEXT TO BIG TOBACCO AND THE NRA, insurance companies top the media,s list of villains. So if large life insurance companies were lobbying all-out against President Bush,s phaseout of the estate tax-a measure that would free thousands of Americans from having to buy expensive policies-you,d expect…
In 1969, two little towns came to represent two opposing cultures in America. After the counterculture held its summer festival in Woodstock, N.Y., a counter-counterculture movement was launched in the fall through the agency of a song called "Okie from Muskogee," in which the singer-songwriter…
Arthur Frommer laid out his "do as the Romans do" philosophy of tourism in the 1989 edition of his book New World of Travel: "[Travel] at all price ranges is scarcely worth the effort unless it is associated with people, with learning and ideas," wrote Frommer, who has published dozens of travel…