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Are America’s Best Health Plans Being Unfairly Attacked?
John C. Goodman  ·  July 14, 2022
SCOTUS Properly Reined in the EPA: Will the IRS and SEC Be Next?
William F. Shughart II  ·  July 13, 2022
Our New Antoinettes
These humanitarian rich feel just terrible about the sins of America, but not terrible enough to sacrifice any element of their privileged lifestyles—the just deserts they feel for being so righteous.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 11, 2022
The Disappearing American?
There are historical downsides—economic, cultural, social, and military—to nations that shun child-raising.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 7, 2022
The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind
How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them when Democrats lose the Congress in November.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 1, 2022
Thomas Derangement Syndrome
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  June 28, 2022
Biden and Oil: Destroy America in Order to Save It
Our current oil shortage did not arise from a foreign war or tsunami, but from a deliberate policy to curtail oil production to force a more rapid transition to battery-powered transportation.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  June 27, 2022
What Congress Can Do to Lower the Cost of Inflation
John C. Goodman, Laurence J. Kotlikoff  ·  June 22, 2022
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


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