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How Big Is the Marriage Tax? Now We Know
John C. Goodman  ·  July 18, 2022
Biden and the Destruction of Wisdom
The Biden regime is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying Americans’ lives as they have known them.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 18, 2022
Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’
Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 15, 2022
Supreme Court Second Amendment Ruling is about Self-Defense
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  July 15, 2022
Build Back Better is Better off Dead
Benjamin Powell  ·  July 15, 2022
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


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