Commentary Articles

The Federal Reserve Needs to Remove Its Blinkers
A monetary mistake based on an outdated paradigm could trigger a recession or even worse inflation.
Judy L. Shelton | November 17, 2021

A Declining Industry? The Growing Financial Risks of Attending College
Richard K. Vedder | November 16, 2021

Can the United States Ever Get Foreign Policy Right?
Biden—having long drunk the Kool-Aid that U.S. alliances “won the Cold War” and should continue as they are in perpetuity—is seemingly taking risky moves that could result in war with the nuclear powers of China and Russia.
Ivan Eland | November 16, 2021

Liberal Myths
John C. Goodman | November 16, 2021

The Chutkan Chronicles
January 6 judge shows preference for judicial abuse.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 15, 2021

Why The Left Always Projects
The slurs and smears levelled by the elites are all the more toxic because they have always known these sins firsthand as their own.
Victor Davis Hanson | November 15, 2021

Biden Derangement Syndrome
George Will, once called “the best writer on any subject,” is the latest victim to this specter now stalking the land.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 14, 2021

“Can a New ‘Anti-Woke’ University Make It Financially?”
Ronald L. Trowbridge | November 14, 2021

Garbage in, Garbage out in Glasgow, Scotland
David R. Legates | November 13, 2021

The FDA is Back and Coming after Smart Socks
Raymond J. March | November 11, 2021

Gavin Newsom Plays Hide and Seek
Why did the California Democrat, a climate-change fundamentalist, skip the Glasgow conference and suddenly go missing?
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 11, 2021

History Will Grind Out the Truth
As the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
Victor Davis Hanson | November 11, 2021

The Specter of Chinese Civilization
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
Angelo M. Codevilla | November 11, 2021

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Economics Classroom
Art Carden | November 10, 2021

That’s Not Real Socialism!
Alexander William Salter | November 10, 2021

Reality Dysphoria
The “Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood” (DSM) is no basis for a system of government.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 9, 2021

The Rest of America Should Learn from California’s Smart-City Missteps
Jonathan Hofer, Christopher B. Briggs | November 9, 2021

Are Colleges Causing National Decline? Should We Tax Them?
Richard K. Vedder | November 9, 2021

Trickle-Down Bidenism
This Biden socialist cadre who engineered these self-induced calamities has no clue about the damage they have done to America.
Victor Davis Hanson | November 8, 2021

Biden’s Borderline Madness
Cancelling the United States of America for fun and profit.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 7, 2021

Joe Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Backstory
How Vice President Biden explained November 5, 2009.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | November 5, 2021

When Is a Constitutional Right Not a Right?
When you need official approval to exercise it. That’s what New York’s pistol-permit law does.
Stephen P. Halbrook | November 4, 2021

Trump Nearing the Crossroads
As 2024 approaches, what will Trump do?
Victor Davis Hanson | November 4, 2021

Den of Thieves
John C. Goodman | November 3, 2021

Gain of Function Controversy Demands Greater Scrutiny for Government-Funded Science
Raymond J. March | November 3, 2021