Commentary Articles

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

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’
Graham H. Walker, Lawrence J. McQuillan | 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
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