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Americans, especially students, are being whipped into a panic over the allegedly existential threat of climate change. Yet the actual research, summarized in the UN’s own periodic reports and in the research of a Nobel laureate in the field, shows that at best only a modest “leaning against the...
In a case study of 367 university students, those who rose earlier more frequently expressed personal agreement with proactive statements such as, “I spend time identifying long-range goals for myself,” and “I feel in charge of making things happen.”
Recognizing self-respect as a core part of self-love may be a puzzle to those whose worldviews and/or models assume it away, but it was understood by Adam Smith well over two centuries ago.
The Social Security trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial condition earlier this year, along with their companion report on Medicare. As in previous years, these reports contain sobering news that lawmakers and the public need to know.
According to the Vera Institute of Justice, "fewer than five percent" of arrests are for serious violent crimes. The vast majority of arrests involve non-serious offenses like “drug abuse violations” and disorderly conduct.
Once established, a government’s military, its bureaucrats and leaders, as well as laymen all face a different set of incentives.
We must develop our ability to “see” the unseen (and often unimagined) good that can only be accomplished by freeing people’s ability to peacefully create and innovate. We must also be able to see the inherent failings of coercion.
The latest policy, proposed by the state's Democrats, will likely have unintended consequences.
The term “kin work” refers to the labor of rearing and nurturing children, both inside a family and throughout a community. But is kin work really off-market?
America still continues as a hope and a reality of the possibility and potential for liberty and prosperity for tens of millions who came to the United States from many other parts of the world. The spirit of individualism was to shoulder those responsibilities yourself as a free and responsible...
“Pearl Harbor didn’t work so we got you with tape decks,” quipped Die Hard’s doomed Mr. Takagi.
But the war never came. Why not?
Unlike the conventional welfare state, the UBI doesn’t try to micro-manage human behavior. But...
The bill, which moved through the California Senate last month, seeks to eliminate the role of doctors in granting medical exemptions for vaccines required for school attendance, giving the authority to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) instead.
Using a $25 loan he obtained by using his car as a security deposit, he purchased a soap load and began selling it door-to-door. He was so successful in this endeavor that he invested another $1,000 in the South Side Chicago enterprise.
While many people are watching the new HBO show Chernobyl—poised to become the new Game of Thrones based on its ratings and reviews—I went to Ukraine to see the actual Exclusion Zone.
As learned from painful experiences in the US and elsewhere, price controls only “succeed” in causing shortages, which prompts rationing. If it isn't Soviet breadlines, it's cars lined up for blocks waiting to buy gasoline in the Nixon-era 70s.
While it's fashionable to talk about Venezuela and its notorious shortage of basic goods like toilet paper, flour, and milk, Cuba is now implementing a rationing program to combat its very own shortages of basic goods.
Marty Feldstein, one of the most influential economists of his generation, died yesterday. He was 79.
On June 12, 1987—32 years ago today—at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, President Ronald Reagan made his famous and history-changing demand: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
As the state expands and sprouts like weeds in an untended garden, fiat money strangles—even destroys—individual freedom and liberty. To support economic progress and a sophisticated monetary sphere, a currency must be compatible with some form of financial intermediation.
Politics in California is sometimes crazy, but are lawmakers really contending that some renewable energy is not renewable energy?
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." - Christianity and Patriotism (1895)
Nowhere in the Constitution is the power to impose taxes or tariffs listed as one of the limited and enumerated powers of the president. The legislative branch should reassert its power to maintain the checks and balances the American Founders intended.
Our politicians are failing us in their efforts to demonize and isolate China. By doing so, we risk turning the biggest consumers of all things American against the United States.
The USPS, which runs the risk of spending down all of its cash in five years, is insistent that their business plan will be released by June 15.
In 2018, U.S. taxpayers spent $17 billion on two federal school lunch programs. Over the last four years, federal school lunch programs have had improper payment rates of 16 percent and 23 percent, respectively.
Separated by half a century, the similarities between Karl Marx and Gracchus Babeuf are striking.
A nearby charter school gives parents the choice of a different school environment at no additional cost, with homeschooling taking a back seat.
The USPS has partly offset declining mail revenues with growth in package revenues. But the company’s finances look pretty bleak overall.
Regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful bookshops, Livraria Lello is visited by thousands of people each day, mostly spectators. This is quite troublesome for a business trying to sell books.
Beginning around 2010-2014 there appears to have been an inflection point.
How can people simultaneously abhor a politician’s blatant dishonesty when it comes to facts while responding positively to what they see as his authenticity or sincerity?
In the last 50 years, homeschooling in the United States has grown from a tiny movement composed primarily of conservative Christians and John Holt “unschoolers” to its present size of around 1.69 million students. Despite these numbers, and despite the fact that most Americans are familiar with...
If you're in the US, you’re probably already in the top 1 percent in terms of worldwide income. But let's look at what it takes to become a one-percenter in America.
As libertarians are often fans of innovation and technological progress, it can be a bit tempting to place a lot of hope in technical solutions. Is the technology, as yet, up to the task? Even if it were possible for a computer to create a "utopia," should we use it that way?
In a day and age where humanity is in the midst of solving problems related to water supply, disease, nutrition, and communication, we’d rather eat our own than allow for more innovation.
There will be fewer workers entering the state’s economy, a situation not helped by the low academic gains in the state’s school system and high housing costs.
When comparing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) immigration system to the United States immigration system, The UAE immigration system is shown to contribute to lower health care costs for Emirati residents and a far superior infrastructure over the United States while generally benefiting both...
Tucker is angry. But populism is a lot like screaming during an argument. There is typically little to no substance—and it is probably going to make the situation way worse—but people simply can’t resist because it feels so good in the moment.
Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders portrays the U.S. education system as grossly underfunded and racially biased, but the statements he makes to support these notions are misleading or explicitly false.
George Orwell's dystopian classic has become a Rorschach test, often revealing more about the reader than the text.
Men’s labor force participation has actually been falling for almost six decades.
The news is filled with scary stories, but the data show Americans have little to fear from traveling abroad. Last year, for example, three times as many people were killed by lightning in the U.S. as died overseas in a terrorist attack.
Labels are easy to use, and they allow us to skim past the complexity of an individual’s ideas and thoughts.
The individual risk of dying from weather-related disasters declined by 99 percent over the last century, despite a steady increase in CO2 output.
The idea that austerity could be expansionary was pilloried by Krugman following the Great Recession. But the authors of a new book show that in many cases austerity did lead to economic growth—and for exactly the reason Krugman denigrated.
Thanos extols his will and his steely resolve to save life by ending it, but his most important weakness is his lack of economic imagination.
According to the Brightfield Group, a Chicago-based cannabis research firm, the legal cannabidiol market could be worth $20 billion by the year 2022. It’s hard to find any downsides to the burgeoning hemp market. The real question is: why did it take so long to get here?
In a newly released report, Reporters Without Borders shows once more a decline in press freedom. When looking at the new rankings, it's difficult to miss the correlation between press freedom and economic freedom.
By "essentials," Rand means the values at stake in a plot or one's life. What does one really need to address? What is one's purpose? By focusing on those values, we give our lives integrity.
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