Law
Beware the blind alley of the 'right' to health
IPN Opinion article
Treating health as an enforceable human right creates serious legal and democratic problems — and does not improve healthcare.
Hasnas wins Bastiat Prize for article of "Extraordinary concision, wit and relevance" in defence of the rule of law
IPN Press release
Announcing the winner and runners-up in the 2009 Bastiat Prize for Journalism competition.
The Health Care Math Everyone Avoids
IPN Opinion article
Whatever the merits of President Obama's healthcare plan, someone will have to pay for it - but there will be fewer and fewer taxpayers and more and more healthcare-dependants as time goes by. It is a calculation that everyone wants to avoid.
Ghana: Unchaining country's melodies
IPN Opinion article
Ghana's untapped source of wealth lies in the creative talents of songwriters, composers, and bands.
Music, money and growth
IPN Opinion article
African music is loved all over the world but African musicians live in poverty: the few stars record and publish abroad. These authors explain how Africans can develop that talent into commercial success as the impoverished city of Nashville did in the 1920s, becoming a musical and economic dynamo.
Yes, Zimbabwe can
IPN Opinion article
President Obama's offer of AIDS relief to Zimbabwe is conditional on it not going anywhere near the pockets of Mugabe and his gang. But the good news is that there are many things Zimbabweans can do themselves to restore prosperity, even with Robert Mugabe still at the helm: all is not lost, despite the horrors of recent years. This author is part of a group of African think-tanks that compiled a list of practical and relatively simple policy recommendations for recovery in the recent The Zimbabwe Papers.
