Commentary Articles

Are University Presidents Paid Too Little or Too Much?
Richard K. Vedder | January 4, 2019

Viva La Revolucion? Not So Much
Art Carden | January 1, 2019

What Does Bussing Your Own Restaurant Table Show about Minimum Wages?
Art Carden | December 30, 2018

Are Universities Ruining Students? These Authors Say ‘Yes’
Art Carden | December 25, 2018

The President Isn’t Too Important to be Indicted
Ivan Eland | December 25, 2018

Time to Stop Mohammed bin Salman
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | December 24, 2018

Making Your Days Merry and Bright: Servers, Cashiers, and Shelf-Stockers Are Holiday Heroes
Art Carden | December 23, 2018

UN Report Shows Politics and Climate Science Are a Deadly Mix
Dominick T. Armentano | December 23, 2018

How to Protect Californians from Wildfires
Katherine Dwyer | December 20, 2018

A Damning Measure of the War on Terror’s Failure
Ivan Eland | December 20, 2018

Congress’s Worst Nightmare: Obamacare May Be Unconstitutional
John C. Goodman | December 20, 2018

All I Want for Christmas Is a Government Shutdown
Benjamin Powell | December 20, 2018

Needed: A Revival of For-Profit Higher Education
Richard K. Vedder | December 18, 2018

Who Pays for a Carbon Tax? No One Knows—That’s the Problem
William F. Shughart II | December 17, 2018

State Bills of Rights Have the Real Protections
William J. Watkins Jr. | December 17, 2018

The University of Illinois Insures Itself Against a Drop in Enrollment of Students from China
Richard K. Vedder | December 17, 2018

Let’s Make Colleges Better at Serving Their Students
Richard K. Vedder | December 14, 2018

A Sea Change for Sexual Conduct on Campus
Wendy McElroy | December 14, 2018

America’s Increasingly Fragile Electric Grid
William F. Shughart II | December 14, 2018

Open Letter to the Republican Party
John C. Goodman | December 14, 2018

Free Up Markets to Reduce Wildfire Damage and Lower Energy Bills
Adam B. Summers | December 13, 2018

Are Universities Truly ‘Liberal’ or ‘Progressive’? Rhetoric and Reality
Richard K. Vedder | December 12, 2018

How Donald Trump Is Radically Reforming Obamacare
John C. Goodman | December 10, 2018

The Academic Leisure Class: The Underutilization of College Resources
Richard K. Vedder | December 9, 2018

The Violence Against Women Act Is an Insult to Fairness
Wendy McElroy | December 8, 2018

Are Millennials Killing Your Industry? Data Can Help You Deal with It.
Art Carden | December 6, 2018

It’s Location, Location and Location
Richard K. Vedder | December 6, 2018

In Memory of Rose Wilder Lane, One of the Great Advocates of Liberty
Gary M. Galles | December 6, 2018

Climate Interventionists Won’t Stop with a Carbon Tax
Robert P. Murphy | December 5, 2018

‘Tariff Man’ (to the Tune of ‘Piano Man’)
Art Carden | December 5, 2018

Do Democrats Have a Health Care Plan?
John C. Goodman | December 4, 2018

California’s Jerry Brown Leaves a Legacy of Going Easy on Convicted Killers
K. Lloyd Billingsley | December 4, 2018

Should We Punish Trade Cheaters? If Anything, We Should Thank Them
Art Carden | November 30, 2018

If Mattis Cares about His Reputation, He’ll Resign Now
Ivan Eland | November 30, 2018

The Mirage of ‘Reality TV’ Clouds Reality in Nuclear Negotiations with North Korea
Ivan Eland | November 29, 2018

When ‘Reasonable’ Burdens Aren’t
Gary M. Galles | November 28, 2018

West Virginia Higher Education: Many Colleges but Little Learning or Income
Richard K. Vedder | November 28, 2018

Why Are People So Divided about Immigration? We Speak Different Political Languages
Art Carden | November 28, 2018

The Liberal Plantation
John C. Goodman | November 26, 2018

What Are You Thankful for? Here Are Five Awesome Global Trends
Art Carden | November 23, 2018

More Nearsighted than Mr. Magoo
Gary M. Galles | November 20, 2018

Doing Things Right: Betsy DeVos, Title IX and Due Process
Richard K. Vedder | November 20, 2018

Why Republicans Lost the House
John C. Goodman | November 16, 2018

California Failed to Sufficiently Manage Its Forests
Katherine Dwyer | November 16, 2018

Racial Segregation on American Campuses: A Widespread Phenomenon
Richard K. Vedder | November 16, 2018

Gun Control: The Kristallnacht Version Of “Common-Sense Safety”
Stephen P. Halbrook | November 15, 2018

‘Democratic Socialists’ Really Need to Learn More about Socialism
Benjamin Powell | November 15, 2018

No More Tax Dollars Spent to Settle Sexual Misconduct Claims
Lawrence J. McQuillan | November 14, 2018

Birthright Citizenship Is Debatable and the US Supreme Court Decides
Ronald L. Trowbridge | November 13, 2018

Are Males Being Discriminated against on College Campuses?
Richard K. Vedder | November 13, 2018