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Let Colleges Fail: How Creative Destruction Can Save Higher Education
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 18, 2024
Report Rips Biden–Harris Labor Secretary Julie Su
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 18, 2024
Privatize Federal Lands
Kristian Fors, Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  September 17, 2024
Welfare is a Jealous Polygamist
Michael C. Munger  ·  September 17, 2024
California Democrat Defects over School Choice
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 17, 2024
Some Colleges Still Using Race in Admissions
Overall, admissions data are mixed, but the real bias against Asian applicants seems to have eased considerably.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 17, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Tax Plan Helps the IRS, Not Ordinary Americans
Alexander William Salter  ·  September 16, 2024
Did Labor Unions Bring Us the Weekend, as Kamala Harris Claims?
Robert M. Whaples  ·  September 16, 2024
On Foreign Policy, the Presidential Debate Was Not Very Enlightening
Ivan Eland  ·  September 13, 2024
Here’s a Job for Trump’s ‘Musk Commission’: Take a Look at How the Federal Reserve Is Paying Banks Not to Lend
If the journalists won’t ask the question of the Fed, maybe an official bottom-up look at our money-losing central bank is in order.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 10, 2024
Why We’re Not Getting All the Medical Care We Need
John C. Goodman  ·  September 10, 2024
How to Restore Trust in American Higher Education
Governing boards must regain their control of America’s colleges and universities
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 9, 2024
Tricks of the Trust-Busting Trade
William F. Shughart II  ·  September 9, 2024
Why Is the Federal Reserve’s Meeting in November Scheduled a Day Later Than It Would Normally Be Held?
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 3, 2024
Should the People With All the Power Have All the Guns?
An armed people prevent tyranny.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 2, 2024
Please, End the Afghanistan Blame Game
Ivan Eland  ·  September 1, 2024
Protectionism’s Bad Economic History
Vincent J. Geloso  ·  August 31, 2024
How Venezuela Opposition Leaders Exposed Maduro’s Election Steal
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  August 29, 2024
8th Circuit Rules in Favor of Pistol Brace Owners
ATF shoots the side of a barn, draws a target around the bullet holes, and proclaims “bullseye!”
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  August 26, 2024
Why Health Policy Problems Are Rarely Solved, Part II
John C. Goodman  ·  August 26, 2024
Lies Abound in Higher Education. Now They’ve Lost Our Respect.
Universities were once places that instilled virtue. That’s no longer true.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 26, 2024
California Makes Theft a Crime Again
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  August 24, 2024
Ending the Leftist Think Monopoly on Campus
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 22, 2024
Ukraine Is Playing with Fire in Kursk
Ivan Eland  ·  August 22, 2024
Solutions to the Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Disaster
Ivan Eland  ·  August 21, 2024


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