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A Recession by Any Other Name
An economic downturn is a political problem, so the White House is playing semantics by redefining the term.
Phillip W. Magness  ·  July 29, 2022
One of Our Few Great College Presidents Retires
Richard K. Vedder  ·  July 28, 2022
Why the Fed May Soon Need Treasury Help
Judy L. Shelton  ·  July 28, 2022
Flashpoints of Potential Escalation in the Ukraine War
Ivan Eland  ·  July 28, 2022
Time to Eliminate the Federal Gas Tax—and Federal Road Building
Today, about 20% of Highway Trust Fund monies are diverted to other purposes
James T. Bennett  ·  July 26, 2022
Sanctions Are Hurting the West More Than Russia
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  July 25, 2022
The U.S. Is Serving Up Pork to Semiconductor Manufacturers
Benjamin Powell  ·  July 21, 2022
Supreme Court Usefully Points Out Erosion of Founders’ Vision of the Constitution
Ivan Eland  ·  July 20, 2022
Here’s What’s Wrong With BBB Lite
John C. Goodman  ·  July 20, 2022
How Big Is the Marriage Tax? Now We Know
John C. Goodman  ·  July 18, 2022
Biden and the Destruction of Wisdom
The Biden regime is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying Americans’ lives as they have known them.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 18, 2022
Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’
Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 15, 2022
Supreme Court Second Amendment Ruling is about Self-Defense
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  July 15, 2022
Build Back Better is Better off Dead
Benjamin Powell  ·  July 15, 2022
Are America’s Best Health Plans Being Unfairly Attacked?
John C. Goodman  ·  July 14, 2022
SCOTUS Properly Reined in the EPA: Will the IRS and SEC Be Next?
William F. Shughart II  ·  July 13, 2022
Our New Antoinettes
These humanitarian rich feel just terrible about the sins of America, but not terrible enough to sacrifice any element of their privileged lifestyles—the just deserts they feel for being so righteous.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 11, 2022
The Disappearing American?
There are historical downsides—economic, cultural, social, and military—to nations that shun child-raising.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 7, 2022
The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind
How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them when Democrats lose the Congress in November.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  July 1, 2022
Thomas Derangement Syndrome
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  June 28, 2022
Biden and Oil: Destroy America in Order to Save It
Our current oil shortage did not arise from a foreign war or tsunami, but from a deliberate policy to curtail oil production to force a more rapid transition to battery-powered transportation.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  June 27, 2022
What Congress Can Do to Lower the Cost of Inflation
John C. Goodman, Laurence J. Kotlikoff  ·  June 22, 2022
Economists Should Know Better than to Support Big Government Democratic Policies
John C. Goodman  ·  June 22, 2022
The Pétain Presidency
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  June 21, 2022
The World Is Facing Its Day of Inflationary Reckoning
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  June 21, 2022


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