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Reckless Reparations Reckoning
The lesson from the $22 trillion record of Great Society compensatory payouts is that massive infusions of federal money are more apt to ensure social disruption and dislocation than alleviate them.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  January 23, 2023
San Francisco Falls Into The Abyss
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  January 23, 2023
It’s Time to Put a Brake on the Debt-Ceiling Charade
The U.S. should break the habit of going to the fiscal brink and adopt a policy that has been shown to work.
Steve H. Hanke, Barry W. Poulson  ·  January 19, 2023
The IMF and Sri Lanka Are Partners in Delusion
As Sri Lanka enters its 17th IMF program, it’s time to ask for a different solution to the country’s problems.
Steve H. Hanke, Caleb Hofmann  ·  January 19, 2023
The Garage Papers
From Alger Hiss to Sandy Berger, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, it’s all about memory against forgetting.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 18, 2023
Who Is ‘Accountable’ to Whom?
Art Carden  ·  January 18, 2023
South Carolina Lawmakers Bear Responsibility for Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling
South Carolinians need to rethink the way judges are selected.
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  January 17, 2023
‘Belief in Freedom’ Is Bad for You
So is “distrust of government,” according to a study in the American Journal of Medicine.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 12, 2023
Does the U.S. Need to Contain China in Africa?
Ivan Eland  ·  January 12, 2023
How Japan Kept Inflation Rates Low
Its monetary policy has long been ultra-tight, not ultra-loose.
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE  ·  January 10, 2023
Feds Are Profiting Off of Policy: Only Voters Can Stop Them
William F. Shughart II  ·  January 7, 2023
Sins Against Children
On America’s moral compass in the face of Covid.
Scott W. Atlas  ·  January 6, 2023
Police Failures in Philadelphia Have Made Private Policing More Attractive
Tate Fegley  ·  January 5, 2023
When Putin Turned His Back on Reaganomics
For a fleeting period he implemented serious tax reform before he did an about-face.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 5, 2023
Why Are Politicians Ignoring the Elderly?
John C. Goodman  ·  January 4, 2023
Wanted: A Successful Collegiate Rent-Seeker
Lobbying has made American higher education fat and ineffective.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 4, 2023
The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
Just as uniformity can result in both stability and stagnation, so too can diversity sometimes ensure either dynamism or bedlam.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  January 3, 2023
U.S. Should Allow Venezuela to Export More Oil
Ivan Eland  ·  January 3, 2023
When Will Academia Account for Its Covid Failures?
We need universities to be robust centers of debate, not rigid enforcers of ideological conformity.
Scott W. Atlas  ·  January 3, 2023
Peru’s Defining Moment: Its Government Rightly Prevented an Illegal, Leftist Coup
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  December 30, 2022
Why Are Gas Prices So High In California?
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  December 27, 2022
Are Universities Doomed?
Elite university degrees certify very little. And the secret is out.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 27, 2022
10 Steps to Save America
Yes, there is a way. But is there the will?
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 20, 2022
The Money Supply and the Housing Market Are Joined at the Hip
Housing markets have reacted as the quantity theory of money would predict.
Steve H. Hanke, Dick Lepre  ·  December 19, 2022
Analogical Reasoning and the Second Amendment
In historical inquiry, reasoning by analogy is a commonplace task for any lawyer or judge.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  December 19, 2022


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