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Gavin Newsom Plays Hide and Seek
Why did the California Democrat, a climate-change fundamentalist, skip the Glasgow conference and suddenly go missing?
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 11, 2021
History Will Grind Out the Truth
As the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 11, 2021
The Specter of Chinese Civilization
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
Angelo M. Codevilla  ·  November 11, 2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Economics Classroom
Art Carden  ·  November 10, 2021
That’s Not Real Socialism!
Alexander William Salter  ·  November 10, 2021
Reality Dysphoria
The “Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood” (DSM) is no basis for a system of government.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 9, 2021
The Rest of America Should Learn from California’s Smart-City Missteps
Jonathan Hofer, Christopher B. Briggs  ·  November 9, 2021
Are Colleges Causing National Decline? Should We Tax Them?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  November 9, 2021
Trickle-Down Bidenism
This Biden socialist cadre who engineered these self-induced calamities has no clue about the damage they have done to America.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 8, 2021
Biden’s Borderline Madness
Cancelling the United States of America for fun and profit.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 7, 2021
Joe Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Backstory
How Vice President Biden explained November 5, 2009.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 5, 2021
When Is a Constitutional Right Not a Right?
When you need official approval to exercise it. That’s what New York’s pistol-permit law does.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  November 4, 2021
Trump Nearing the Crossroads
As 2024 approaches, what will Trump do?
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 4, 2021
Den of Thieves
John C. Goodman  ·  November 3, 2021
Gain of Function Controversy Demands Greater Scrutiny for Government-Funded Science
Raymond J. March  ·  November 3, 2021
Karl Marx’s Choice for Treasury Department Comptroller
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 3, 2021
The Battle Over Biden’s Currency Comptroller
Saule Omarova is not the first Leninist to vie for a high government position
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  November 2, 2021
Life after Capitalism
The information theory of economics
George F. Gilder  ·  November 2, 2021
Who Eventually Won the Cold War?
There is nothing like an old Bolshevik grinning that ossified American wokesters are stuck circa 1920s in the old Bolshevik Russia.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 1, 2021
Will the Decade-Long Decline in College Enrollments Continue?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  November 1, 2021
The Ignoble Lie
“Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 1, 2021
In New York State Rifle, the Court Should Look to Text, History, and Tradition
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  November 1, 2021
Fed Tapering Won’t Beat Inflation
Supply issues are mostly to blame for rising prices. Deregulation is a crucial part of the remedy.
Alexander William Salter  ·  October 29, 2021
Lady Killers
Government gunners prefer their targets soft, pale, and innocent.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 29, 2021
Why Is Congress about to Declare War on Seniors?
John C. Goodman  ·  October 27, 2021


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