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The Left Got What It Wanted—So Now What?
There is no schadenfreude in seeing the Left destroy everything it touches—because its claws tear all of us as well.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 11, 2021
Putting a Proper Price on Spending
Steve H. Hanke  ·  October 8, 2021
America and The Dying Citizen
Freedom requires constant reinvestment in and replenishment of a nation’s traditions and ideals.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 7, 2021
The Woke Left’s Primitive Economics
Zero-sum thinking was adaptive in a world of tribal conflict, but isn’t in a modern society.
Paul H. Rubin  ·  October 6, 2021
Science Closes in on Covid’s Origins
Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.
Richard A. Muller, Steven C. Quay  ·  October 6, 2021
Dangers of a Digital Dollar
If widely used, it would give the central bank unprecedented power over the financial system.
Alexander William Salter  ·  October 6, 2021
Biden’s Bank Robber
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 6, 2021
The United States Should Take a Page from the German Election Playbook
Ivan Eland  ·  October 6, 2021
Should Low Earnings Degrees Be Eliminated? Gillen’s Data and More
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 5, 2021
So They’re Trying to Shut You Up
How to defend yourself in a free-speech crisis, whatever your politics.
Donald A. Downs, Keith E. Whittington, Robert P. George  ·  October 5, 2021
Lessons from Employer Vaccination Mandates
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  October 5, 2021
Fumento Misdiagnoses Remdesivir
Raymond J. March  ·  October 4, 2021
Review of Edward Younkins, Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus
Art Carden  ·  October 4, 2021
Our Woke National Icons
Milley, Fauci, and Biden are soulless men who reveal the bankruptcy of our ruling class.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 4, 2021
Our Porcine Two-Legged Wokeists
Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi—and their supposed unwoke, but similarly rich enemies, “It was impossible to say which was which.”
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 30, 2021
Codevilla, Courage, and COVID
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 29, 2021
Review of Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis
Art Carden  ·  September 27, 2021
The Symptoms of Our Insanity
What explains these insanities that are insults to the American people’s intelligence?
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 27, 2021
New Ruling Hinders the Search for Truth in Sexual Assault Cases
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  September 24, 2021
Riches and Rankings: Washington U’s Soaring Endowment
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 24, 2021
Now Is the Time to Reign in Excessive Executive Power
Ivan Eland  ·  September 23, 2021
Peru’s Dim Future from Shining Path
Maoist revolutionary Abimael Guzmán is dead at 86, and a Marxist-Leninist is president.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  September 22, 2021
Arne Duncan Captains the Anti-Choice Team
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 22, 2021
The Misuse of Knowledge in Society: Intervention Means Prices Are Lying
Art Carden  ·  September 22, 2021
There’s (Cradle to) Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
John C. Goodman  ·  September 21, 2021


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