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A Farewell Assessment: Higher Education after Six Decades
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 28, 2021
The Ungracious—and Their Demonization of the Past
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 28, 2021
Sowing Winds and Reaping Whirlwinds
The Left is being consumed by its own hatreds and hubris.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 27, 2021
Homeless and Clueless in Oakland and Elsewhere in America
Elihu M. Harris, Mary L. G. Theroux  ·  December 25, 2021
Why BBB Would Be Hazardous to Your Health
John C. Goodman  ·  December 24, 2021
It’s Time for the Fed to Go Old School
No fancy stuff. Raise rates via open-market operations that reduce the size of the balance sheet.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  December 23, 2021
Please—Stop the Coup Porn
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 23, 2021
Can the Federal Student Loan Program Be Reformed?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 23, 2021
China’s Internal Weakness
Ivan Eland  ·  December 21, 2021
America Needs a Rebirth of Science
The nation’s experience during Covid has revealed that the scientific community is not giving Americans what they need, what they deserve, and what they pay for. We must do better.
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Scott W. Atlas, Martin Kulldorff  ·  December 20, 2021
Why Would Hispanics Drop the Left?
The bill for the arrogance and incompetence displayed by leftist elites is now coming due.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 20, 2021
The Fickle ‘Science’ of Lockdowns
Experts foresaw before Covid that the strategy would fail. The authorities embraced it anyway.
Phillip W. Magness, Peter C. Earle  ·  December 20, 2021
Great Americans Gone in 2021
But not forgotten.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 18, 2021
Pillage People and the Pandemic
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 18, 2021
Why Is the Left Worried Suddenly About the End of Democracy?
They are fearful and angry not because democracy does not work, but because it does despite their own media and political efforts to warp it.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 16, 2021
Emmet Domain
Judge Emmet Sullivan, persecutor of General Michael Flynn, now railroads the January 6 defendants.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 15, 2021
A Biden Plan for Prices? No Thanks
The Build Back Better plan would make things worse by injecting trillions of dollars into the economy.
Michael C. Munger  ·  December 15, 2021
Improving Access or Lowering Standards? Abolishing the SAT
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 15, 2021
From Prague to Washington
One coup succeeded, the other is still in progress
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 13, 2021
Cracked Icons
The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  December 13, 2021
Nirvana Economics: How Treating the Real World Like an Imaginary Ideal World Leads to Trouble
Gary M. Galles  ·  December 12, 2021
C’mon, Man! Lessons from the National Football League
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 11, 2021
Global Posture Review Makes Only Minor Changes to American Hegemony
The Global Posture Review is another reminder that Congress must reclaim its war powers.
Ivan Eland  ·  December 10, 2021
Price Controls on Drugs Would Save Lives, but Also Take Them
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  December 10, 2021
From Galveston to Wuhan
What did the Fauci-funded lab know about the origin of the COVID-19 virus, and when did they know it?
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 9, 2021


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