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Malthus Reversed: The Birth Dearth and Our Future
The new threat to human well-being is a shrinking population, not a growing one.
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Apr. 8, 2024
How to Reform Social Security—Part II
John C. Goodman | Commentary | Mar. 22, 2024
Don’t Credit the Fed for Inflation’s Decline
The central bank failed to constrain economic growth. As supply increased, price increases eased.
Judy L. Shelton | Commentary | Mar. 18, 2024
America Is An Overstretched Superpower
The United States has made too many formal and informal alliance commitments that come at a huge cost to American taxpayers.
Ivan Eland | Commentary | Nov. 6, 2023
The Need for Adult Supervision of Universities
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Oct. 31, 2023
MAGA Republicans Shouldn’t Forget About Cutting Defense
A more restrained American security posture would help reduce the mountainous budget deficit.
Ivan Eland | Commentary | Oct. 13, 2023
How Inflation Fuels Government Growth
High interest rates hit the private sector hard while leaving Washington free to spend more money.
Judy L. Shelton | Commentary | Aug. 23, 2023
Cut Pork from the Farm Bill
Benjamin Powell | Commentary | July 27, 2023
What the Populists in Congress Get Right and Get Wrong
Ivan Eland | Commentary | Jan. 26, 2023
The Sovietization of American Life
Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the nomenklatura.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | June 6, 2022






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