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The Most Selfish Generation
Americans today can’t match the achievements of the Greatest Generation.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 13, 2022
My Day at Yale
A Great University Turns Human Trafficker
Naomi R. Wolf  ·  December 12, 2022
Twitter Files Confirm Censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration
Phillip W. Magness, David Waugh  ·  December 10, 2022
Conflicting Health Policy Visions in the Senate
John C. Goodman  ·  December 9, 2022
New California Law Will Cripple Its $20 Billion Fast-Food Industry
California’s new fast-food law establishes a politically appointed council with unprecedented power to regulate the industry by setting worker wages, hours, and other working conditions.
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  December 9, 2022
Killer Robots: Another Example of War Coming Home to You
San Francisco just approved technology that would allow cops to use lethal force via remote control. Sound familiar?*
Abigail R. Hall, Christopher J. Coyne  ·  December 8, 2022
Who’s to Blame for the High Cost of Living?
Congress flails, the Fed professes responsibility, and taxpayers get stuck holding the bag.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  December 7, 2022
Justice Alito Got It Right on Abortion and Stare Decisis
An important, but probably not the last word on Roe v. Wade
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  December 7, 2022
How the Boom Bust Works
Jeffrey Tucker  ·  December 6, 2022
If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the last two years.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 6, 2022
Yes, an Academic Free-Speech Conference Needed Protection from the Mob
A recent Stanford event was “invitation-only” for a reason.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 6, 2022
Post-Faucist America
Without crucial reforms, the NIAID boss Anthony Fauci will be neither gone nor forgotten.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 6, 2022
Don’t Bet Against the Hong Kong Dollar
Currency boards are always a graveyard for speculators.
John Greenwood, OBE, Steve H. Hanke  ·  December 5, 2022
The COVID/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Jeffrey Tucker  ·  November 29, 2022
The GOP Needs to Go Back to Sound Principles on Free Enterprise, Small Government, and Legal Immigration
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  November 29, 2022
Fine. Blame Ticketmaster for the Taylor Swift Fiasco, but Don’t Overlook the Fundamental Cause.
Art Carden  ·  November 21, 2022
Can’t Get Taylor Swift Tickets? Blame Other Fans, Not Ticketmaster
Art Carden  ·  November 19, 2022
Let Them Compete: Labor Markets Are Workers’ Friends, Not Their Enemies
Art Carden  ·  November 18, 2022
End the COVID National Emergency Now
Senator Rand Paul  ·  November 18, 2022
Why Doesn’t This Economist Want His Daughter to Be a Feminist?
Art Carden  ·  November 17, 2022
As California Schools Fall Even Further, A Charter School Shows How To Succeed
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  November 17, 2022
Left Libertarians, Dobbs, and the Ninth Amendment
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  November 17, 2022
Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part Two
John C. Goodman  ·  November 17, 2022
Congress Must Fix the Electoral Count Act to Avert a Crisis
Several dangerous points of potential electoral failure, which were demonstrated by the abuse of the act after the 2020 presidential election, have not yet been addressed.
Ivan Eland  ·  November 17, 2022
There Are 8 Billion People. We Should Celebrate Superabundance, Not Lament ‘Overpopulation’
Art Carden  ·  November 16, 2022


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