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Yale and The University of Texas: Who Owns the University?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 26, 2021
Supreme Court’s Latest Second Amendment Case Isn’t about Race, It’s about Rights
Does a person need to be assaulted, shot, or wounded in order to carry a firearm for self-defense?
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  October 26, 2021
Ground Zero of Woke
Universities are making themselves not just disliked and disreputable but ultimately irrelevant and replaceable.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 25, 2021
Our Purgatory Is Their Nirvana
One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 22, 2021
The Monetary Bathtub Is Overflowing
Many economists say inflation is transitory. It will be persistent.
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE  ·  October 22, 2021
Latin American Unity Remains a Pipe Dream
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  October 22, 2021
An End to Tax Withholding
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 20, 2021
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: New Criticisms and Challenges
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 19, 2021
Is America Becoming Rome Versus Byzantium?
Our Byzantine interior and Roman coasts are quite differently interpreting their shared American heritage as they increasingly plot radically divergent courses to survive in scary times.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 15, 2021
Tenure Controversy in Georgia
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 15, 2021
Don’t Commit to Defense of Taiwan
The island can take care of itself without the United States ending its public ambiguity in favor of an explicit alliance.
Ivan Eland  ·  October 15, 2021
Why Americans Are Not Anxious to Get Back to Work
John C. Goodman  ·  October 14, 2021
How the Fed Finances U.S. Debt
Look behind the federal books to see the ways monetary policy has come to abet runaway spending.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  October 14, 2021
Can You Even Be an ‘Informed’ Citizen?
Art Carden  ·  October 13, 2021
How Innovative Is Crypto?
Matt Sekerke, Steve H. Hanke  ·  October 13, 2021
Eight No Cost Federal Collegiate Reforms Improving Access and Learning
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 12, 2021
Down with White Coat Supremacy!
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 12, 2021
Code Red for Humanity—More Like a False Alarm
Anthony R. Lupo  ·  October 12, 2021
The Left Got What It Wanted—So Now What?
There is no schadenfreude in seeing the Left destroy everything it touches—because its claws tear all of us as well.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 11, 2021
Putting a Proper Price on Spending
Steve H. Hanke  ·  October 8, 2021
America and The Dying Citizen
Freedom requires constant reinvestment in and replenishment of a nation’s traditions and ideals.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 7, 2021
The Woke Left’s Primitive Economics
Zero-sum thinking was adaptive in a world of tribal conflict, but isn’t in a modern society.
Paul H. Rubin  ·  October 6, 2021
Science Closes in on Covid’s Origins
Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.
Richard A. Muller, Steven C. Quay  ·  October 6, 2021
Dangers of a Digital Dollar
If widely used, it would give the central bank unprecedented power over the financial system.
Alexander William Salter  ·  October 6, 2021
Biden’s Bank Robber
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 6, 2021


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