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MAGA Republicans Shouldn’t Forget About Cutting Defense
A more restrained American security posture would help reduce the mountainous budget deficit.
Ivan Eland  ·  October 13, 2023
Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie
Phillip W. Magness  ·  October 11, 2023
Immigration and Naturalization: Are They the Same Thing?
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  October 10, 2023
How Little Mound Bayou Became a Powerful Engine for African American Civil Rights and Economic Advancement
David T. Beito  ·  October 10, 2023
Biden Bans Travel to Energy Conferences: It Didn’t Work in California
The Biden administration thinks it has energy figured out. It doesn’t.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 9, 2023
Latin America on the Knife’s Edge
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  October 9, 2023
Bread and Circuses, Then and Now: America Mimics Rome’s Decline
What does the fall of Rome have to do with modern America?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 9, 2023
We Will Miss Dianne Feinstein’s Bipartisanship
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  October 6, 2023
Inflationary Growth is Fake News
Alexander William Salter  ·  October 5, 2023
An American Lack of Introspection on Failed U.S. Foreign Policy
The American people must be shown that foreign policy crises don’t arrive out of the blue.
Ivan Eland  ·  October 5, 2023
Beware the Rise of Esports Washing
How Saudi Arabia exploits video games for PR
Jonathan Hofer  ·  October 3, 2023
Adam Smith’s Great Power Politics in One Paragraph
Daniel B. Klein  ·  October 3, 2023
Reaching Across the Aisle for the Bill of Rights: Learning from a Political Odd Couple
David T. Beito  ·  October 3, 2023
Biden Bypasses Senate Confirmation in Labor’s Julie Su
A new, harmful precedent has been set.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 3, 2023
Raid on Small-Town Paper Recalls FDR’s Harassment
David T. Beito  ·  September 27, 2023
Taxation as Social Justice
Michael C. Munger  ·  September 25, 2023
Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists
Phillip W. Magness  ·  September 25, 2023
When the Left and Right Came Together to Applaud Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
David T. Beito  ·  September 25, 2023
San Francisco Values? Nancy Pelosi Explains It All for You.
According to her city, rules that apply to the working class don’t apply to the ruling class.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 21, 2023
He’s at It Again! Merrick Garland Proposes Ever-More Intrusive ATF Regulations.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  September 20, 2023
Freedom of Choice in Education: the Origins of a Slogan
Phillip W. Magness  ·  September 19, 2023
For Whom Does the Ball Roll?
It’s time to recognize the successes and failures of American collegiate sports.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 18, 2023
Post-Postmodern America
Woke Revolution depends on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 18, 2023
Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up
Daniel B. Klein  ·  September 18, 2023
We Can’t Arrest Our Way out of Homelessness, but Law Enforcement Still Has a Role
Mary L. G. Theroux  ·  September 18, 2023


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