Commentary Articles

Economists Should Know Better than to Support Big Government Democratic Policies
John C. Goodman | June 22, 2022

The Pétain Presidency
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 21, 2022

The World Is Facing Its Day of Inflationary Reckoning
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | June 21, 2022

What Can Healthcare Prices Teach About Inflationary Woes?
Raymond J. March | June 20, 2022

Domestic Terrorism Ignored
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 19, 2022

Four Reasons Biden’s Student Loans ‘Forgiveness’ Plan is Wrong
Richard K. Vedder | June 18, 2022

What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
Victor Davis Hanson | June 16, 2022

Fed Interest Hikes May End Up Having Unintended Consequences
The economy doesn’t need artificially high or low rates. It needs meaningful price signals—real rates.
Judy L. Shelton | June 16, 2022

A New and Needed Truth-Seeking University
Ronald L. Trowbridge | June 16, 2022

The Pangloss Presidency
Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans now live in the best of all possible worlds.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 16, 2022

GasCón Artist
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 13, 2022

Are Elon Musk and Jaime Dimon Crying Wolf about the Economy?
Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy. JPMorgan’s Jaime Dimon forecasts an “economic hurricane.” Both claims are counterfactual.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff | June 13, 2022

The Subordinate Citizen
Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both noncitizens and our own progressive elites.
Victor Davis Hanson | June 13, 2022

Five Ways Minimum Wage Studies Fail
Caleb S. Fuller | June 10, 2022

In the Shadow of D-Day
Joe Biden, who can’t remember D-Day but can’t wait to take your guns, should spur us to remember what happens when those with all the power have all the guns.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 10, 2022

San Francisco Boots Boudin
The recall of San Francisco’s pro-crime district attorney could be a promising sign for November.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 9, 2022

The Cultural Pessimism of 1619
The 1619 Project distorts the scholarship on slavery, finance, and U.S. economic history.
Peter A. Coclanis | June 8, 2022

The CDC’s New Pox Americana
Monkeypox see, monkeypox do.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 8, 2022

Congress Must End the Federal Mask Mandate Once and for All
Benjamin Powell | June 6, 2022

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 | June 6, 2022

Kamala and the AK-47 Killer
Biden’s VP blames “assault weapons” for the actions of criminals and terrorists.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | June 2, 2022

George Stigler, Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist
Art Carden | June 1, 2022

Bernanke’s Prescription for Inflation—Give the Fed More Power
Judy L. Shelton | June 1, 2022

FBI Ballot Initiative
The incoming Congress could end the FBI’s use and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on “U.S. persons.”
K. Lloyd Billingsley | May 31, 2022

Should the United States Treat Taiwan Differently Than Ukraine?
Events and emotions surrounding armed aggression can easily carry a U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward a hot war with China.
Ivan Eland | May 31, 2022