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Well, it seems as if the Friends generation is long gone. That is, no longer is it cool to be young, single, and live in Manhattan. At least it is no longer affordable to be young, single, and living in Manhattan.
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." — Anonymous
Welfare programs have a role in providing a helping hand, but they should be a trampoline instead of a mattress.
Even if British politicians do not come to appreciate the benefits of free trade on a principled level, Britain’s exit from the EU may impel them to support it nonetheless rather than impose the increasingly obvious costs of protectionism on the voting public. But why?
You simply can’t make people better off by removing options from them. The protectionist’s claim to the contrary flies in the face of irrefutable economic logic.
It usually takes an economic recession to cause year-over-year job losses at NYC’s full-service restaurants.
The 56-page report is a long list of known policy prescriptions to increase public health, including increased taxation and reduced means of marketing.
Researchers are worried that Big Food is meddling in the debate around nutrition and believe that the industry is unilaterally organizing...
The amount of delinquent student loan debt in the United States has reached a new high. What can be done to solve this growing crisis?
On the surface, the proposal, which has 200 sponsors, has it all. A closer look shows it fails to address the program's fatal flaws.
By feeding falsehoods to respondents, pollsters can severely distort the results of their polls. The press has done that on a wholesale basis with the American public on this issue and many others.
Children in the Quebec program experienced increased rates of anxiety and decreased social and motor skills compared to children elsewhere in Canada where this program was not offered.
Cuba in 1950 had a lower child mortality rate than all but a handful of the world’s countries—lower than Canada and on par with the United States. What happened?
A society that taxes productivity and subsidizes idleness over time will get less of the former and more of the latter.
New Jersey is currently one of the most heavily taxed states in the country. And yet, it is going to burden its residents even further with the passing of this bill.
As the experiences of thousands of victims of Ponzi schemes so clearly demonstrate, the bargain of abnormally high returns and guaranteed easy riches is tempting, but it never pays off in the long run.
The Supreme Court’s ruling won’t end the practice, but it will limit the abuse. The rest of the work will be left up to states and local governments.
How could anyone call these firings "unfair" when employers are being forced to raise everybody’s wage?
Green New Deal supporters' faith in their own ability to reshape the economy belies any hope that they appreciate the iterative processes by which markets evolve as a function of human behavior.
It’s a blind spot for any socialists who like to see themselves as faithful followers of...
Amazon is valued at nearly $800 billion, yet the company reportedly paid $0 in federal income taxes last year. Why?
Instead of reducing the costs of providing care through much-needed supply-side reform, this new demand-side scheme will further drive up the market price of child-care, with taxpayers on the hook now for increased use of formal care.
Government control of the payment of physicians through Medicare and Medicaid places a tremendous administrative burden on physicians and tends to drive reimbursement downward. As such, certain physicians refuse to accept Medicare or, more commonly, Medicaid insurance plans.
In fact, one-...
In a recent interview with economist Tyler Cowen, Jordan Peterson said today's universities are doing "absolutely everything wrong from a psychological perspective."
Supporters of the measure don’t seem to grasp the impending economic fallout.
Recognizing the inevitable effects of automation, artificial intelligence researchers have been calling for dramatic changes in the education of our youth since computers first appeared.
John Copeland, who was arrested for possessing a common folding knife, is seeking Supreme Court review.
In the 1963 Current Population Survey, a divorced person headed just 3.5 percent of American households, with another 1.6 percent headed by a separated person.
Garet Garrett spoke boldly and consistently against “the dim-out of the individual” represented by the political centralization and bureaucratization of American life under FDR. We could profit greatly from revisiting his insights.
Talent, I argue, is not born; it’s made—and parents can make a big difference.
When voters and politicians treat democracy as a complete zero-sum game, opposing sides will turn to undemocratic means to seize victory—even electing totalitarian leaders to push their agendas.
I’d rather be faulted for going too far in correcting my weaknesses than for not correcting them at all.
Let us list our Songs Of Freedom and those liberty extolling (or defending) lyrics that we love.
I invite readers to add their personal favorite(s) as a comment to this article.
Uber Eats is about to deliver $10 billion worth of food around the world this year, becoming one of the globe’s largest food-delivery services. In America, however, Uber Eats still trails behind GrubHub. But for how long?
"Of all the means by which a government can stimulate production, there is none so powerful as the perfect security of person and property, especially from the aggressions of arbitrary power."
Restrictions on free enterprise and free trade usually rest on fallacious economic reasoning and spurious empirical evidence, which (rightly) receive most of our attention. We should, however, also occasionally examine the ghastly moral underpinnings of these regulations.
The Kaepernick affair acts as a convenient little package of sentiments reflecting a broader tension. Adam Smith, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, discusses “the love of our country.”
Trying to fix our current mess, wrought by too much government, with single-payer is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Craig Cesal is serving a life sentence in federal prison for doing body work on trucks that were moving marijuana, a first-time offense.
John Stossel travels to the Academy of Thought and Industry to explore a school filled with kids who would likely be considered dysfunctional and troublemakers in the normal education system.
He finds something much different.
The real loss to consumers is choice. They have less choice in a world where Amazon has fewer competitors, which is inevitable when the economy is centrally planned, and politicians decide who can play and who can’t.
Networking is any context in which you expand your reach, the people you know, and the people who know you. It’s just the act of meeting other people.
FEE President Lawrence W. Reed was recently interviewed by Crusoé magazine in Brazil. Hear his opinion on wide-ranging topics such as Venezuela, Brexit, Bolsonaro's Brazil, and the Trump administration.
Sure, it would be nice if we could harmoniously adopt bleeding-heart policies. But in the real world, the forces of reaction and selfishness will try to obstruct and reverse bleeding-heart policies with every step. Unless, of course, you terrorize them into submission.
"We have rights in this society, the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and the right to be safe with our property and not have people take it."
The Trump administration must continue to pursue peace in Afghanistan, even if it is unpopular with the foreign policy establishment of both parties.
"To illustrate this point, just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez texting from her iPhone, wearing a Movado watch, and drinking a Starbucks coffee."
Could it be possible that we didn’t invent witch-hunts because we hate witches, but we invented witches because we love witch-hunts?
President Donald Trump, in a tweet Wednesday evening, called the ambitious project "a green disaster."
There is a lesson here for political leaders offering “free” services—from college tuition, to health care, and beyond.
Adherents of collectivism do not understand scarcity or incentives.
These schools are shattering the myth that education cannot possibly be provided to the poor through non-governmental means.
If firms don't have the power to intercept encrypted data for authorities, they will be forced to create tools to allow law enforcement or government to have access to their users’ data.
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