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The United States Should Take a Page from the German Election Playbook
Ivan Eland  ·  October 6, 2021
Should Low Earnings Degrees Be Eliminated? Gillen’s Data and More
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 5, 2021
So They’re Trying to Shut You Up
How to defend yourself in a free-speech crisis, whatever your politics.
Donald A. Downs, Keith E. Whittington, Robert P. George  ·  October 5, 2021
Lessons from Employer Vaccination Mandates
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  October 5, 2021
Fumento Misdiagnoses Remdesivir
Raymond J. March  ·  October 4, 2021
Review of Edward Younkins, Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus
Art Carden  ·  October 4, 2021
Our Woke National Icons
Milley, Fauci, and Biden are soulless men who reveal the bankruptcy of our ruling class.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 4, 2021
Our Porcine Two-Legged Wokeists
Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi—and their supposed unwoke, but similarly rich enemies, “It was impossible to say which was which.”
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 30, 2021
Codevilla, Courage, and COVID
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 29, 2021
Review of Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis
Art Carden  ·  September 27, 2021
The Symptoms of Our Insanity
What explains these insanities that are insults to the American people’s intelligence?
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 27, 2021
New Ruling Hinders the Search for Truth in Sexual Assault Cases
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  September 24, 2021
Riches and Rankings: Washington U’s Soaring Endowment
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 24, 2021
Now Is the Time to Reign in Excessive Executive Power
Ivan Eland  ·  September 23, 2021
Peru’s Dim Future from Shining Path
Maoist revolutionary Abimael Guzmán is dead at 86, and a Marxist-Leninist is president.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  September 22, 2021
Arne Duncan Captains the Anti-Choice Team
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 22, 2021
The Misuse of Knowledge in Society: Intervention Means Prices Are Lying
Art Carden  ·  September 22, 2021
There’s (Cradle to) Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
John C. Goodman  ·  September 21, 2021
Why Men Are Disappearing on Campus
About half of women entering four-year colleges graduate on time, but only 40% of men do.
Braden Colegrove, Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 20, 2021
The Afghanistization of America
We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 20, 2021
‘Science,’ They Said
Science is dying; superstition disguised as morality is returning. And we all will soon become poorer, angrier and more divided.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 17, 2021
El Salvador, Bukele’s Bitcoin Bunkum
Bukele’s Bitcoin dream is based on a lie.
Steve H. Hanke  ·  September 17, 2021
Epitaph for the ‘War on Terror’
Avenging 9/11 and preventing its recurrence was justification for putting enormous effort and money into unrelated or even counterproductive activities the ruling class sold to us as antiterrorism.
Angelo M. Codevilla  ·  September 17, 2021
Does Another Decade of Inflation Loom Ahead?
Burton A. Abrams, James L. Butkiewicz  ·  September 17, 2021
How Experts Can Fail Even When They Are Right
Art Carden  ·  September 15, 2021


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