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K-12 Parents Need Same Choices as College Athletes
Like college scholarships, education dollars should flow to students’ parents, not government bureaucracies.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 15, 2024
California Has Lost 410,000 Jobs. With a New Bill, More Could Be on the Way Out.
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  April 15, 2024
DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
How odd it is that America is wasting billions of dollars hiring DEI czars and electing woke politicians, who so often accuse others of a multitude of sins, largely as a way of enriching themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 15, 2024
Russian Self-Destruction Helps America
Putin has gone from a flirtation with free-market capitalism to increasingly authoritarian kleptomania.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 12, 2024
The Middleman Is a Public Servant
Art Carden  ·  April 11, 2024
Tilting at Antitrust Windmills: Department of Justice Sues Apple
The DOJ ignores consumers’ choices in favor of indulging the preferences of bureaucrats.
William F. Shughart II  ·  April 11, 2024
Look with Two “I”s
Michael C. Munger  ·  April 11, 2024
Is There A Trump Health Care Plan?
John C. Goodman  ·  April 8, 2024
To Have and Withhold: The IRS Gets Your Money Before You Do
The IRS should end withholding as a good first step toward trimming the power of the federal government.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 8, 2024
Malthus Reversed: The Birth Dearth and Our Future
The new threat to human well-being is a shrinking population, not a growing one.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 8, 2024
20th Century Ideology, Modern Mixed Economies
John C. Goodman  ·  April 5, 2024
Slavery Revisited: Time on the Cross at 50
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 4, 2024
‘Misinformation’ Is the Censors’ Excuse
They kneecap free-speech advocates by portraying them as defenders of lies.
Daniel B. Klein  ·  April 4, 2024
Uncivic Education
Many of those who know little or nothing about the seemingly relevant facts, nevertheless have opinions, sometimes even strong opinions, about public matters.
Benjamin Ginsberg  ·  April 4, 2024
Criticizing the Israeli Government’s Incompetence Is Not Antisemitic
The current Israeli strategy will result in an Iraq-style counterinsurgency quagmire.
Ivan Eland  ·  April 2, 2024
A Red Flag for Kamala Harris
Vice President Harris has trouble distinguishing mass shooters from their victims.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 1, 2024
DeSantis Homeless Policy Is the Opposite of California’s ... and That’s Good
Christopher J. Calton  ·  March 30, 2024
Trump’s Tariff Talk Proves Bad Economics Can Be Good Politics
Benjamin Powell  ·  March 29, 2024
Saudi Arabia Goes for Transformative Hat Trick
Major update in every sense except political one
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  March 27, 2024
Strikes Against the Houthis Need Congressional Approval
If Congress cannot reassert its constitutional duty to approve U.S. military actions now, will it ever?
Ivan Eland  ·  March 25, 2024
California’s ‘Paneragate’ Shows How Lobbyists Are Now Crafting Laws
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  March 25, 2024
Fauci and His Minions Are Still in Control
The time has come to hold Dr. Fauci and his cronies accountable for damages from the Covid pandemic.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  March 25, 2024
Too Much: Three First World Problems
Art Carden  ·  March 22, 2024
The Real March Madness
Richard K. Vedder  ·  March 22, 2024
The First Amendment is Under Attack in America’s Oceania
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  March 22, 2024


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