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Yes, an Academic Free-Speech Conference Needed Protection from the Mob
A recent Stanford event was “invitation-only” for a reason.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  December 6, 2022
Post-Faucist America
Without crucial reforms, the NIAID boss Anthony Fauci will be neither gone nor forgotten.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  December 6, 2022
Don’t Bet Against the Hong Kong Dollar
Currency boards are always a graveyard for speculators.
John Greenwood, OBE, Steve H. Hanke  ·  December 5, 2022
The COVID/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Jeffrey Tucker  ·  November 29, 2022
The GOP Needs to Go Back to Sound Principles on Free Enterprise, Small Government, and Legal Immigration
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  November 29, 2022
Fine. Blame Ticketmaster for the Taylor Swift Fiasco, but Don’t Overlook the Fundamental Cause.
Art Carden  ·  November 21, 2022
Can’t Get Taylor Swift Tickets? Blame Other Fans, Not Ticketmaster
Art Carden  ·  November 19, 2022
Let Them Compete: Labor Markets Are Workers’ Friends, Not Their Enemies
Art Carden  ·  November 18, 2022
End the COVID National Emergency Now
Sen. Rand Paul  ·  November 18, 2022
Why Doesn’t This Economist Want His Daughter to Be a Feminist?
Art Carden  ·  November 17, 2022
As California Schools Fall Even Further, A Charter School Shows How To Succeed
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  November 17, 2022
Left Libertarians, Dobbs, and the Ninth Amendment
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  November 17, 2022
Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part Two
John C. Goodman  ·  November 17, 2022
Congress Must Fix the Electoral Count Act to Avert a Crisis
Several dangerous points of potential electoral failure, which were demonstrated by the abuse of the act after the 2020 presidential election, have not yet been addressed.
Ivan Eland  ·  November 17, 2022
There Are 8 Billion People. We Should Celebrate Superabundance, Not Lament ‘Overpopulation’
Art Carden  ·  November 16, 2022
Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part One
John C. Goodman  ·  November 16, 2022
What Difference Did the Election Make?
John C. Goodman  ·  November 16, 2022
Enjoyment of the Upcoming World Cup Will Come at a Price
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  November 16, 2022
Diabetic Complications and Economic Fundamentals
Raymond J. March, Byron B. Carson III  ·  November 14, 2022
Where Is the Free Market Utopia?
Art Carden  ·  November 14, 2022
On Gas Prices, Simple Economics Trumps Biden’s Partisan Agenda
Taxing the corporate-greed “bogeyman” won’t decrease prices at the pump.
Alexander William Salter, Benjamin Powell  ·  November 10, 2022
Vote Like a Woman
When You Vote, Remember Who Has Recently Most Hurt Women
Naomi R. Wolf  ·  November 7, 2022
Permissible and Impermissible Incendiary Speech?
For many on the Left, what most see as incendiary and violent rhetoric is simply contextualized as the necessary talk of social justice.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 7, 2022
Michael Bloomberg Has Become the Advocate that Higher Education Needs the Most
Richard K. Vedder  ·  November 3, 2022
Like Soviets and Russians Before, China Is a Hollow Threat
Ivan Eland  ·  November 2, 2022


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