Michael F. Cannon Five years ago this month, the world shut down due to COVID-19. “Paris, Milan, London, New York, San Francisco, and even Delhi—even India, the entire country—locked down…
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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter US housing prices have risen faster than income since 2000, making housing less affordable. The solution is more housing, and the question is, what is…
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Walter Olson Alarming news for university independence, from the New York Times: “The Trump administration on Thursday demanded that Columbia University make dramatic changes in student discipline and admissions before…
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There’s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities becoming R1 research institutions, the competition…
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Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the biggest domestic policy news of 2025 so far. Established by executive order (EO) on January 20, 2025,…
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Six hundred years before Carl Menger wrote his Principles, Thomas Aquinas was writing about the role of subjective valuation in economic exchanges. His work helped lay the groundwork for further…
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From the Middle Ages to Rousseau to the Industrial Revolution to Trotsky, historian Ralph Raico provides a refreshing free-market analysis of political thought.
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International organizations like the EU and UN are creations of states and serve the states’ elites. We can’t “improve” them or make them more “efficient.”
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Belief in the fairy tale known as Modern Monetary Theory not only is endemic in US academic and government circles, but is also making headway in Great Britain. We are…