Commentary Articles

Oligarchy, and Remedies
Angelo M. Codevilla | May 10, 2021

Falling College Academic Standards: New Evidence
Richard K. Vedder | May 7, 2021

Restricting the Unvaccinated Sets a Dangerous Precedent
Abigail Devereaux | May 7, 2021

“After the Revolution, You Will Like Going Camping!” G.A. Cohen’s Camping Trip Reconsidered
Art Carden | May 6, 2021

The Fed Board Agrees Never to Disagree
During Yellen’s tenure and Powell’s, no governor has cast a dissenting vote on monetary policy.
Judy L. Shelton | May 5, 2021

Higher Ed and the Biden Agenda: Be Prepared to Become Disappointed
Richard K. Vedder | May 4, 2021

Biden’s Spending Binge Is Costlier Than Advertised
The new taxes he proposes would cost money to collect and put a drag on the productive economy.
Steve H. Hanke | May 3, 2021

Biden Finally Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide and Ignores Communist Mass Murder in China and Cambodia
K. Lloyd Billingsley | May 3, 2021

The ‘Plantados,’ Cuba’s Immovable Heroes
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | May 3, 2021

The Bleak Biden Way
What is the Biden way? To surveille, monitor, root out, raid, jail, confine, and smear all impediments to fundamental transformation.
Victor Davis Hanson | May 3, 2021

The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Rate: Zero
John C. Goodman | May 1, 2021

Massive School Data Breach Shows We Need Better Privacy Policies
Williamson M. Evers, Jonathan Hofer | April 30, 2021

Markets Help People Care for You without Caring about You
Art Carden | April 30, 2021

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Purdue, Howard, and the U of Texas
Richard K. Vedder | April 27, 2021

The Senator Nobody Voted for Has a Curious Plan for Joe Biden’s America
K. Lloyd Billingsley | April 27, 2021

Why Would a 50-Year-Old Want To Join Medicare?
John C. Goodman | April 26, 2021

Much to Forgive
Adults have failed children in foisting unnecessary, harmful Covid-19 restrictions on them.
John Tierney | April 26, 2021

You Think This Is a Game? Not Quite.
Art Carden | April 24, 2021

Biden-Harris Gun Violence ‘Fact Sheet’ Comes Up Short on Facts
K. Lloyd Billingsley | April 22, 2021

Masters of Puppets and Men of System: Review of Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman, Escaping Paternalism
Art Carden | April 22, 2021

For-Profit Higher Ed’s Renaissance: The Case of Coursera
Richard K. Vedder | April 20, 2021

The Health Problem Congress Created and Cannot Solve
John C. Goodman | April 20, 2021

The Joe Biden Who Never Was
Victor Davis Hanson | April 20, 2021

Biden ‘Stimulus’ Will Deaden Innovation
Keynesians have it backward: Growth is driven by production, not consumption.
Alexander William Salter | April 19, 2021

The Inverted Yield Curve and Recession
Robert P. Murphy | April 19, 2021