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Colleges: Go Back to Basics
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 27, 2022
The Fed’s Mission Creep Has Turned Its Monetary Policy into a Failed Mission
James L. Butkiewicz, Burton A. Abrams  ·  October 26, 2022
What I Bet You Don’t Know about Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Government
John C. Goodman  ·  October 25, 2022
The Bicycle Lobby Goes Back to the Federal Trough
James T. Bennett  ·  October 24, 2022
California’s Proposition 29 Is about Union Extortion, Not Dialysis Care
Adam B. Summers  ·  October 24, 2022
D.E.I. Statements: Empty Platitude, or Litmus Test?
University-issued “diversity statements” are either too banal to justify or unconscionable attacks on free speech.
Tim Shampling  ·  October 20, 2022
A Guide to Avoiding the IMF–China Debt Trap
Lower-income countries can choose monetary reform, or they can continue being treated as leverage in a messy game of international politics.
Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke  ·  October 19, 2022
How Evil Are Politicians? This Book Says ‘Very’
Art Carden  ·  October 19, 2022
Collegiate Complicity in the Erosion of American Identity
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 18, 2022
The Tentacles of the Social Media Octopus
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 17, 2022
Is This the End of the U.S.-Saudi Partnership?
Ivan Eland  ·  October 17, 2022
Free the World’s Greatest Market, Says Economist Bryan Caplan
Art Carden  ·  October 16, 2022
California Tries to Delay Release Of K–12 School Test Scores Until After Election
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  October 15, 2022
Economic Essentials and Economic Errors
Art Carden  ·  October 14, 2022
The Not-So-Invisible Hand: Central Banks
Judy L. Shelton  ·  October 13, 2022
The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident
Jeffrey Tucker  ·  October 12, 2022
The Neoliberal Calumny: Getting Economist W.H. Hutt’s Life and Work All Wrong
Art Carden  ·  October 11, 2022
Why Biden’s Pot Pardons Are a Step in the Right Direction
Art Carden  ·  October 10, 2022
Will Biden’s Support for the Iran Protests Backfire?
Although Biden’s policy of active assistance for the Iranian protesters is not as aggressive as Trump’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani, it might be as dangerous.
Ivan Eland  ·  October 10, 2022
Public Lands: America’s Great Anomaly
Steve H. Hanke  ·  October 6, 2022
Pandemics and Liberty: An Introduction
Ryan M. Yonk, Raymond J. March  ·  October 6, 2022
How San Francisco Can Solve Its Homelessness Problem
A campus-based model in San Antonio suggests a path forward.
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  October 4, 2022
Gov. Newsom Is Right to Oppose Proposition 30, A Destructive Tax Increase
Luka Ladan  ·  October 3, 2022
Remembering Hate Speech
What we used to know as “hate speech” is now presidentially acceptable speech, and what has followed from it is no surprise.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 30, 2022
More Advanced U.S. Weaponry for Ukraine?
Ivan Eland  ·  September 30, 2022


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