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Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem.
Victor Davis Hanson | Commentary | Jan. 14, 2025
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Jan. 4, 2025
What Today’s Economics Students Aren’t Learning about Economics
Alexander William Salter | Commentary | Jan. 2, 2025
China Unsheathes Its Doomsday Artillery
China dominates the production and processing of critical materials.
Steve H. Hanke, Jeffrey Weng | Commentary | Jan. 1, 2025
Progressives’ Aversion to Private Industry Does Not Extend to Private Universities
The representation of public versus private universities in government is contrary to the historical image—Democrats have higher numbers of Ivy League graduates than their Republican counterparts.
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 19, 2024
The Year the World Went Woke
2014, when obscure academic jargon made the leap from the faculty lounge to mainstream conversation
Phillip W. Magness | Commentary | Dec. 17, 2024
Does Academic Research Advance Human Welfare? Not Always.
Comparing economic data from the early 20th century to that of the early 21st century, there is a lot of academic research that has been shown to have caused more harm than good.
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 13, 2024
A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya (Part 2)
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 11, 2024
A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya (Part 1)
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 10, 2024
The Golden State Unleashes the Anonymous Snoop Dogs
All part of protecting “California values” from Donald Trump.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Dec. 9, 2024






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