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California’s Stem Cell Bust Turns 20
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 5, 2024
How About James Bond as a Central Banker? ‘Goldfinger’ Emerges as a Metaphor for Our Times
Judy L. Shelton  ·  October 4, 2024
Why So Many Students Hate Israel
Benjamin Ginsberg  ·  October 4, 2024
California’s Billion-Dollar Stem Cell Initiatives End in Failure
Twenty years of false promises and white coat waste.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  October 2, 2024
Jimmy Carter: A Centennial Assessment
I thank him for his long service to his family, God, and country.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 2, 2024
What’s Wrong with the Way We Pay Doctors?
John C. Goodman  ·  October 1, 2024
VanDerStok Tests Limits of Yet Another ATF Rule
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the agency may expand criminal liability under the Gun Control Act.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  September 30, 2024
New York’s ‘Good Moral Character’ Requirement for Gun Permits
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  September 27, 2024
Momala Harris and the Expanding Maternalistic State
Burton A. Abrams  ·  September 27, 2024
Revisiting Reagan: He Won the Cold War, But Lost the War Against Big Government
This does not detract from the inspiring effect of his relentless defense of individual freedom.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  September 26, 2024
Newsom Signs Dozens of New Housing Bills with No New Ideas
Christopher J. Calton  ·  September 26, 2024
What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the GOP’s Health Ideas
John C. Goodman  ·  September 25, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Homeownership Plan Could Become the Next Student Debt Crisis
Christopher J. Calton  ·  September 25, 2024
Penn’s Shameful Sanction of Amy Wax: A Blow to Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 25, 2024
Higher Ed’s Fate in 2024
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 25, 2024
Alfred Marshall’s Scissors
Michael C. Munger  ·  September 24, 2024
Neither Harris nor Trump Can Make Housing More Affordable
Benjamin Powell  ·  September 23, 2024
Should the Government Guarantee Everyone a Minimum Income?
John C. Goodman  ·  September 20, 2024
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


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