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David Inserra Recently European leaders have been openly attacking the value of free expression in their words and policy prescriptions. While Europeans and Americans...
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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so. But lately they’re...
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It is important to note that states and what we know as taxes gradually emerged through war, conquest, plunder, and tribute. While the organization...
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Colleen Hroncich For more than 20 years, Tasha Ellis worked in a variety of roles within the education system, teaching K–8 in Atlanta public schools, adult...
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Ryan McMaken looks in detail at an important essay by historian Ralph Raico in which Raico critiques Ludwig von Mises’s views on democracy, fascism,...
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Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration has been scaling back support for clean energy, generating backlash from those concerned about carbon emissions. Which view is more convincing? Take as...
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In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon discusses Jeff McMahan’s thoughts on fighting in both just and unjust wars. “Just following orders” is...
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Patrick G. Eddington Early this morning, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R‑SD) secured cloture on S.4344, Senator Tom Cotton’s (R‑AR) bill to extend Section...
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Clark Packard Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made headlines last week when she called rising fertilizer prices an “overarching economic pending disaster” before...
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Jeffrey Miron New research uses regional per capita tax burdens in 1780s France to examine the relationship between tax burdens and rioting. It finds...
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Andrew Gillen With federal deficits at high and unsustainable levels, there is an urgent need to find ways to cut federal spending. Fortunately, new...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Two recent Wall Street Journal editorials argue that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “inexplicable” rejection of RP1, an immunotherapy for melanoma, may cost...
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Our own Jonathan Newman had the opportunity to sit down with a Federal Reserve governor. The central banker’s answers to Newman’s questions were evasive...
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Jeffrey Miron Women and minorities start businesses at significantly lower rates than men and whites. One study examines whether this disparity reflects, in part,...
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Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man.
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Chris Edwards Spending on farm subsidies is rising after a series of costly expansions in recent years. The subsidies are not an emergency safety...
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How do new or even “radical” ideas become part of the body politic? The Overton Window provides a way of better way of helping...