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Teachers who leave the classroom to create schooling alternatives can be an inspiration to other teachers who may feel frustrated or powerless. Rather than blaming themselves, entrepreneurial teachers are the ones who imagine, design and implement new models of education.

Is it unfair that executives make substantially more than a middle manager, an executive assistant, or an assembly-line worker?

In the all-out quest for educational equity, innovation is systematically stifled. If not everyone can have something, then no one can.

Are billionaires human dragons, sleeping on their piles of gold and rubies? Let's compare.

If your online habits are interfering with your productivity, your leisure time, or your relationships, it might be time to embrace Digital Minimalism.

In film and pop culture, Che Guevara comes off as an adventurous motorcyclist, a humble-living commoner, a romantic egalitarian revolutionary, and a swashbuckling sex symbol. However, an objective review of history shows that Che was more ghastly than commonly believed.

In 1937, a taxicab medallion in New York City cost $10. In 2013, medallions were selling for as high as $1.3 million at auctions. Here's why.

While it’s great to see South African President Ramaphosa showing such avid support for a continent-wide free trade area, South Africans might see little of its benefits if lawmakers succeed in their expropriation plans.

To force a company to invest in capital that it might not otherwise need would be an inefficient use of resources—not to mention, an outrageous overstep of government power.

Unfortunately for the government number crunchers, many people choose to value things or activities that aren't being added up on spreadsheets. But what about those things that can't be measured?

The FDA enforcing erratic, outdated “healthy” guidelines only adds to consumers’ perceptions that nutrition is an arbitrary construct. The agency has signaled that it intends to rewrite its definition of “healthy,” but progress thus far has been slow and uneven.

Doubling down on the already unpayable burdens Medicare has laid on future generations highlights the blatant hypocrisy of those who preen about all the need to “invest in the future.”

School choice has been around for many decades, but since the mid-1900s, progress has been slow. Politicians and teacher unions have been resistant to change. Recently, school choice has been gaining popularity. Nevertheless, there are still a number of fallacies that persist.

If Bernie Sanders's wealth tax was passed, it would be unlikely that any new Amazons or Apples would be started, and existing firms would be placed in ever less capable hands, with ever lower valuations as the wealth tax works its way down the line from billionaires to millionaires.

There is no doubt that online shopping is convenient. But these retail trends show that there are factors other than convenience that drive consumer choices.

From 12:01 a.m. on October 4 until the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, every dollar the federal government spends it must borrow.

Unlike American welfare programs, Scandinavian programs are funded in large part by middle-income and upper-income individuals.

No matter how fairly one tries to allocate political power, some state or someone will have a special edge from time to time. It’s unavoidable. But it’s not undemocratic.

Why do drivers on Waze take on an obligation to update an app after passing an inconvenience? The answer is incentive.

Comparative advantage is a better predictor of math intentions than perceptions of math ability.

"The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth." - Ayn Rand

The basic freedom to self-ownership in our bodies is being eroded. It might be easy to blame politicians, but I would point to the public’s lack of understanding of the self-ownership principle. Before meat-eaters are singled out as the next group of social pariahs, it’s time to pause and...

Geographic mobility is a crucial part of the economic dynamism that enables the American Dream. Unfortunately, new rent control laws are almost certain to make housing even less affordable for Americans seeking opportunity—and less mobile.

Yes, a tariff is a tax. And so is devaluation. Why don’t policy types and candidates for public office speak up about the other devaluation?