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As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors.
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Policy-made rates reshape everything: mortgages, bonds, stocks, and commodities.
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Justin Logan Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are bogged down on the same issues that have bogged them down for years: territory...
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Colleen Hroncich The roots of Faithscape Learning Pod in Casa Grande, AZ, stretch back to founder Deja Hillis’s childhood. “As a student myself with a...
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Walter Olson Number eighteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Is this where it finally stops? Indiana Senate rejects...
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High time preference is a sign of economic degradation, and Bose shows that a rejection of Christian sexual ethics is a feature of a...
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While the jury still is out regarding Javier Milei’s economic and political “reforms” in Argentina, one must remember that the damaging interventions into Argentina’s...
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Jeffrey A. Singer The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order that would have the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...
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Peter Goettler “Does ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ mean I can drink before noon? These are all important questions.” – P.J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) With America’s intense...
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Matthew Cavedon A new article in the Harvard Law Review by NYU Law Professor Emma Kaufman shows that plea bargaining violates the historical meaning...
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The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy.
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Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same...
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Precedents for sovereign default exist, but they are double-edged.
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Chris Edwards In the October 23 Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan discusses core features of American government and ponders how President Trump fits in....
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Colleen Hroncich A third-generation teacher, Julie Christensen left the classroom in 2010 when her son, who was neurodivergent, needed more support. She began homeschooling...
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Juan Londoño On September 29, Senators Josh Hawley (R‑MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) introduced a bill to create a risk evaluation program within the Department of...
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The central philosophy of progressivism is that we should be governed by so-called experts. What happens, however, when the “experts” are just plain wrong?