Commentary Articles

Students Love Their Professors but Not Academic Bureaucrats
Richard K. Vedder | December 12, 2019

The Federal Judge Got It Wrong about Parents Trying to Buy Their Kids’ Way into College
Ronald L. Trowbridge | December 11, 2019

Supreme Court Has Thrown a Wrench into the Machinery of Free Speech
Ronald L. Trowbridge | December 9, 2019

Understanding Elizabeth Warren’s Radical Wealth Tax
Robert P. Murphy | December 9, 2019

There’s Something Bernie Sanders Isn’t Telling Us about Canadian Health Care
K. Lloyd Billingsley | December 9, 2019

Opioids Are Killing Us: Here’s What We Can Do about It
John C. Goodman, Lawrence J. Wedekind | December 4, 2019

DeVos’s Useful Reform in Federal Student Financial Aid
Richard K. Vedder | December 4, 2019

The New College Scorecard Gets a C- on Its Report Card
Richard K. Vedder | December 3, 2019

Does Collegiate Athletic Excellence Promote Academic Excellence?
Richard K. Vedder | November 26, 2019

Has Great Higher Education Reached Middle America?
Richard K. Vedder | November 21, 2019

Decrying Income Inequality Is a Harmful Tactic That Will Make Us All Worse Off
Edward P. Stringham | November 20, 2019

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

Where Democrats Go Wrong on Pre-existing Conditions
Alfredo Ortiz, John C. Goodman | 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