Commentary Articles

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

China’s Crackdown on Think Tank Illustrates Importance of Hong Kong Protests
Benjamin Powell | September 18, 2019

College Sports: Students Be Damned
Richard K. Vedder | September 17, 2019

The Second Amendment Helped Feinstein Make It out of San Francisco Alive—But Don’t Tell City Supervisors
K. Lloyd Billingsley | September 12, 2019

Prospects for Federal Higher Education Reform? Little in Short Run
Richard K. Vedder | September 10, 2019

How To Help the Poor Without Subsidizing the Rich
John C. Goodman | September 10, 2019

Why is the ‘Cost of Living’ in Cities So High?
Robert P. Murphy | September 9, 2019

Federalism Can Solve the Abortion Fight
William J. Watkins Jr. | September 6, 2019

Recalling the Tragic History of Gun Control
Stephen P. Halbrook | September 6, 2019

Intellectual Gerrymandering: ‘E Unum Pluribus’ on Campus
Richard K. Vedder | September 4, 2019

Biden’s Waning Sanity Is Reminiscent of McGovern’s 1972 Running Mate
K. Lloyd Billingsley | September 2, 2019

Price Gouging Laws Are Knowledge Embargoes That Should Be Repealed
Art Carden | September 1, 2019

Understanding Macri’s Failure
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | September 1, 2019

Don’t Be So Quick to Write Off Natural Gas
William F. Shughart II | August 29, 2019

California Wants to Teach Your Kids that Capitalism Is Racist
Williamson M. Evers | August 29, 2019

FTC’s Antitrust Win Against Qualcomm Should Not Stand
David J. Teece CNZM, Ph.D. | August 27, 2019

Majors Matter
Richard K. Vedder | August 27, 2019

Democrats’ Assault on an Independent Judiciary
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway | August 26, 2019

Ending Surprise Medical Bills: The Very Good, the Good, and the Ugly
John C. Goodman | August 26, 2019

Take the Deal, President Trump. Eighteen Years Is Enough. It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan.
Ivan Eland | August 22, 2019

The University of Texas Belatedly Helps Poor Kids
Richard K. Vedder | August 20, 2019

We Already Know What the Trump Health Plan Is
John C. Goodman | August 19, 2019

Can Both Red and Blue Sides Have a Civil Debate?
Ronald L. Trowbridge | August 15, 2019

Colleges Don’t Want ‘Free College’
Richard K. Vedder | August 12, 2019

Banning E-Cigarette Sales Will Do More Harm than Good
Raymond J. March | August 12, 2019

Trade with China Benefits American Consumers
Art Carden | August 12, 2019

How Tragic Is the Tragedy of the Commons?
A Birthday Appreciation of Elinor Ostrom
Art Carden | August 9, 2019

The President and Congress Are Fiscal Swamp Monsters
Ivan Eland | August 8, 2019

Criminal Justice Reform Should Extend to Student Financial Aid
C. Ronald Kimberling | August 7, 2019

No One Can Be Certain If Trump Will Win or Lose Reelection
Ronald L. Trowbridge | August 6, 2019

Who Needs Harvard? Amazon University and Other Options
Richard K. Vedder | August 6, 2019

Ratcliffe Falls to Intelligence Agency Imperialism
Angelo M. Codevilla | August 5, 2019

Summer Madness Hits College Campuses
Richard K. Vedder | August 3, 2019

Dumb Ideas Drove CNN’s Detroit Debates
K. Lloyd Billingsley | August 2, 2019

A Health Plan for President Trump
John C. Goodman, Marie Fishpaw | August 2, 2019