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Delta Doesn’t Owe Me More Legroom
Art Carden  ·  April 19, 2022
California’s Math Framework Lacks Research to Justify Its Progressive Agenda
Williamson M. Evers, Ze’ev Wurman  ·  April 18, 2022
Obamacare: Promises Made, Promises Broken
John C. Goodman  ·  April 18, 2022
Trickle-Down Racist Antiracism
This reactionary and neo-Confederate return to racial stigmatization and hatred is not going to end well.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 18, 2022
We Can Adapt to Climate Change Without Destroying Our Way of Life
Anthony R. Lupo  ·  April 15, 2022
The False Narrative That Ethnic Studies Courses Improve Student Learning
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  April 15, 2022
Loose Nuke Talk
The world has become obsessed with nuclear weapons. Is there a danger in daily normalizing the abnormal and casually thinking the unthinkable?
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 15, 2022
In Defense of Inequality
John C. Goodman  ·  April 14, 2022
Suffering from Sunk Costs
Gary M. Galles  ·  April 14, 2022
Inequality and the Piketty Accounting Error
The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century.
Phillip W. Magness, Vincent J. Geloso  ·  April 12, 2022
The Altimeter for Powell’s Soft Landing
Rate hikes alone risk an economic crash. The key is to stabilize the growth of the broad money supply.
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE  ·  April 12, 2022
U.S. Secret Service Open for Business
Fake agents, possibly tied to Iranian and Pakistani intelligence, target Jill Biden’s security detail.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 11, 2022
Climate-Change ‘Solutions’ That Are Worse Than the Problem
The political assault on fossil fuels comes at the expense of the poor, peace, and the environment.
Jason De Sena Trennert  ·  April 11, 2022
The Debasement of Our Professional and Political Classes
Leftist professionals in politics, government, and private enterprise debased themselves for short-term political gain, or in furor at their bogeyman Trump, or in anger at the unwashed.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 11, 2022
The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
Phillip W. Magness  ·  April 8, 2022
Can Ukraine Ever Win?
There is as yet still no deterrent force that can stop Russia’s bombs and missiles and disrupt Vladimir Putin’s nihilist strategy.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 8, 2022
America Needs Proactive Energy Solutions, Not False Allegations
William F. Shughart II  ·  April 8, 2022
High Wages in Markets Are a Result of—and a Reflection of—High Worker Productivity
Donald J. Boudreaux  ·  April 7, 2022
Biden’s Billionaire Tax Proposal
Randall G. Holcombe  ·  April 7, 2022
The Nihilism of the Left
In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 6, 2022
Fear of Hobgoblins Doesn’t Justify Zoning
Gary M. Galles  ·  April 2, 2022
Ditch the Global Minimum Tax Grab
It would mean less revenue for the U.S. Treasury and will never get past a Republican Congress.
Bruce Gilley  ·  April 1, 2022
Do They Not Know?
Donald J. Boudreaux  ·  April 1, 2022
Why a Billionaire’s Tax Could Be Bad for You
John C. Goodman  ·  April 1, 2022
History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine
Ukraine can defeat Vladimir Putin’s expeditionary army if the West remembers that history is not on Putin’s side.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 1, 2022


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