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Setting the Record Straight on Income Inequality
Book Review of The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate by Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund, and John Early.
Art Carden  ·  February 8, 2024
Who Should Govern Our Cowardly, Antisemitic Colleges?
Benjamin Ginsberg  ·  February 7, 2024
Biden, Buttigieg, and Bullet Trains
Both pols are on board a boondoggle for the ages.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  February 6, 2024
GigEconomy.Gov?
A lesson in basic economics for the very confused.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  February 6, 2024
Chicago, San Francisco Should Cut Real Estate Transfer Taxes
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  February 5, 2024
Not a Very Virtuous Virtue Signal
Gary M. Galles  ·  February 2, 2024
In Los Angeles, “Squatters Have Rights, Too”
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  February 2, 2024
Remembering John Taylor of Caroline
Prophet of Encroaching Tyranny
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  February 1, 2024
Agency ‘Guidance,’ Interpretive Regulations, and Chevron
State and federal agencies express views that are thinly-veiled diktats.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  February 1, 2024
The California Exodus Gets a Gag Order
According to the Los Angeles Times, people should leave “without verbally trashing the place.”
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 29, 2024
Two Cheers for the Bipartisan Tax Deal
John C. Goodman  ·  January 26, 2024
Housing Alone Cannot Solve Homelessness
Christopher J. Calton  ·  January 26, 2024
The Truth about Tariffs
Phillip W. Magness  ·  January 26, 2024
Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Recent Housing Reforms
Christopher J. Calton  ·  January 25, 2024
The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 25, 2024
It’s Time to Tax the Universities
Elite schools aren’t benefiting society. They shouldn’t get tax breaks.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 23, 2024
Javier Milei’s Free Market Revolution
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  January 23, 2024
Golden State Knocks Greed out of the Park as State Politicians Target Shohei Ohtani
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 22, 2024
No Policy Consequences Are ‘Unintended’
William F. Shughart II  ·  January 22, 2024
Travis Kelce, COVID ‘Variants,’ and the CDC Vaccine Machine
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 22, 2024
The Hysterical Style in American Politics
To enact its unpopular agendas, the progressive movement must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  January 21, 2024
What Netanyahu Can Learn from the War on Terror
The War on Terror exemplified how a state’s overreaction to an attack can cause more harm than good. Is Israel on the same path?
Ivan Eland  ·  January 19, 2024
Health Insurance Without Health Care
John C. Goodman  ·  January 19, 2024
Inflation Was Always a Monetary Phenomenon, Never Transitory
The Fed must realize that monetary policy is not about interest rates, but about the rate of growth in the money supply.
John Greenwood, OBE, Steve H. Hanke  ·  January 16, 2024
Claudine Gay: Critical Plagiarism Theory
Phillip W. Magness  ·  January 15, 2024


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