By Stephen Amidon 9/18/07 4:17pm

Milton Friedman’s Afterlife

THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM
By Naomi Klein
Metropolitan Books, 559 pages, $28

Soon after Katrina devastated New Orleans, a Florida airline named Help Jet announced its plan to be “the first hurricane escape plan that turns a hurricane evacuation into a jet-setter vacation.” As Naomi Klein recounts in The Read More

By Joe Conason 6/29/98 12:00am

Capitol Crackpots: What Are They Smoking?

On Capitol Hill, June 17 was a happy day for the addiction industries. Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, announced the death of a landmark tobacco control bill. And Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the Clinton Administration’s “drug czar,” pronounced anathema on the courageous citizens who dare advocate reform of the nation’s narcotics laws. So the marketers Read More