Commentary Articles

Opioids Are Killing Us: Here’s What We Can Do about It
John C. Goodman, Lawrence J. Wedekind | December 4, 2019

DeVos’s Useful Reform in Federal Student Financial Aid
Richard K. Vedder | December 4, 2019

The New College Scorecard Gets a C- on Its Report Card
Richard K. Vedder | December 3, 2019

Does Collegiate Athletic Excellence Promote Academic Excellence?
Richard K. Vedder | November 26, 2019

Has Great Higher Education Reached Middle America?
Richard K. Vedder | November 21, 2019

Decrying Income Inequality Is a Harmful Tactic That Will Make Us All Worse Off
Edward P. Stringham | November 20, 2019

Mexico’s Good-for-Nothing President AMLO—Go After Murderous Cartels or Get Out of the Way
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 19, 2019

Washington Voters Say No to Campus Racial Discrimination
Richard K. Vedder | November 19, 2019

The Bolivian ‘Coup’ that Wasn’t
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | November 18, 2019

Should States Subsidize Universities?
Richard K. Vedder | November 14, 2019

Those Shaming Amazon about Bangladeshi Factories Should Be Ashamed of Themselves
Benjamin Powell | November 13, 2019

The Surprising Economics of Surprise Medical Bills
John C. Goodman | November 12, 2019

The Emerging New Face of Affordable Health Care
Conor Norris | November 12, 2019

Failed Selective Consumption Taxes Are Red Meat for Politicians
William F. Shughart II, Adam J. Hoffer | November 6, 2019

Washington Elites Are Chaining Us to the Middle East
Ivan Eland | November 6, 2019

Is ‘Diversity’ Destroying the HBCUs?
Richard K. Vedder | November 5, 2019

Bitcoin’s Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges
Robert P. Murphy | November 4, 2019

Where Democrats Go Wrong on Pre-existing Conditions
Alfredo Ortiz, John C. Goodman | November 4, 2019

Is the Man-Made Climate Change Debate Really Over?
Dominick T. Armentano | November 1, 2019

Do Ukrainians Care about the Trump-Zelensky Phone Call?
William J. Watkins Jr. | November 1, 2019

California’s Baghdadi Backlash
K. Lloyd Billingsley | October 29, 2019

Republicans Have a Health Plan—Finally!
John C. Goodman | October 28, 2019

Can a Black High School Guard Be Fired for Quoting the N-word?
Ronald L. Trowbridge | October 25, 2019

Housing, Human Dignity and a ‘State of Emergency’
Lawrence J. McQuillan, Graham H. Walker | October 25, 2019

California’s ‘New Normal’
K. Lloyd Billingsley | October 24, 2019

The New Campus Deplorables
Richard K. Vedder | October 24, 2019

Why Not Try Free Market Health Care?
John C. Goodman | October 22, 2019

Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court Confirmation, 28 Years Later
George W. Nicholson | October 22, 2019

Why Do We Have Business or Education Schools in Universities?
Richard K. Vedder | October 17, 2019

The Right Move Done the Wrong Way
Ivan Eland | October 16, 2019

Will the Courts Rein in Collegiate Race/Gender Pandering?
Richard K. Vedder | October 15, 2019

Trump Should Heed History and End His Trade Wars
Lamar K. Hendrikse, Lawrence J. McQuillan | October 14, 2019

Do University Stores Rip Off Students?
Richard K. Vedder | October 8, 2019

Democrats Issue Ominous Warning to Supreme Court
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway | October 7, 2019

A ‘Silver Bullet’ for the World’s Problems? Check This One Out
Burton A. Abrams | October 6, 2019

Admissions Lawsuit: Harvard’s Ahead, but It’s Not Over
Richard K. Vedder | October 4, 2019

How Did We Come to Have a Rogue Presidency?
Ivan Eland | October 4, 2019

Why Are There So Many Marginally Employed PhDs in English?
Richard K. Vedder | October 1, 2019

Could Our Next President Be a Libertarian?
Randall G. Holcombe | September 27, 2019

The New Campus Housing Bubble
Richard K. Vedder | September 25, 2019

IPCC Lead Author’s Research Uncertain About UN Climate Goal
Robert P. Murphy | September 23, 2019

California State University System’s Math Problem
Ze'ev Wurman, Williamson M. Evers | September 23, 2019

Three Charts Showing Just How Boxed-in the Fed Is
Robert P. Murphy | September 20, 2019

Don’t Sweat the Saudi Oil Disruption
Ivan Eland | September 18, 2019