Commentary Articles

Trump Should Heed History and End His Trade Wars
Lawrence J. McQuillan | October 14, 2019

Do University Stores Rip Off Students?
Richard K. Vedder | October 8, 2019

Democrats Issue Ominous Warning to Supreme Court
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway | October 7, 2019

A ‘Silver Bullet’ for the World’s Problems? Check This One Out
Burton A. Abrams | October 6, 2019

Admissions Lawsuit: Harvard’s Ahead, but It’s Not Over
Richard K. Vedder | October 4, 2019

How Did We Come to Have a Rogue Presidency?
Ivan Eland | October 4, 2019

Why Are There So Many Marginally Employed PhDs in English?
Richard K. Vedder | October 1, 2019

Could Our Next President Be a Libertarian?
Randall G. Holcombe | September 27, 2019

The New Campus Housing Bubble
Richard K. Vedder | September 25, 2019

IPCC Lead Author’s Research Uncertain About UN Climate Goal
Robert P. Murphy | September 23, 2019

California State University System’s Math Problem
Ze'ev Wurman, Williamson M. Evers | September 23, 2019

Three Charts Showing Just How Boxed-in the Fed Is
Robert P. Murphy | September 20, 2019

Don’t Sweat the Saudi Oil Disruption
Ivan Eland | September 18, 2019

China’s Crackdown on Think Tank Illustrates Importance of Hong Kong Protests
Benjamin Powell | September 18, 2019

College Sports: Students Be Damned
Richard K. Vedder | September 17, 2019

The Second Amendment Helped Feinstein Make It out of San Francisco Alive—But Don’t Tell City Supervisors
K. Lloyd Billingsley | September 12, 2019

Prospects for Federal Higher Education Reform? Little in Short Run
Richard K. Vedder | September 10, 2019

How To Help the Poor Without Subsidizing the Rich
John C. Goodman | September 10, 2019

Why is the ‘Cost of Living’ in Cities So High?
Robert P. Murphy | September 9, 2019

Federalism Can Solve the Abortion Fight
William J. Watkins Jr. | September 6, 2019

Recalling the Tragic History of Gun Control
Stephen P. Halbrook | September 6, 2019

Intellectual Gerrymandering: ‘E Unum Pluribus’ on Campus
Richard K. Vedder | September 4, 2019

Biden’s Waning Sanity Is Reminiscent of McGovern’s 1972 Running Mate
K. Lloyd Billingsley | September 2, 2019

Price Gouging Laws Are Knowledge Embargoes That Should Be Repealed
Art Carden | September 1, 2019

Understanding Macri’s Failure
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | September 1, 2019