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Free College is Bad for Students

One of the anomalies of the 2016 presidential election was the fact that an old white guy from Vermont was […]

Who Cares Who the Fed Chairman Is?

“He who tries to borrow ‘money’ needs it solely for procuring other economic goods.” – Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money […]

Will the Timeline of the Vegas Shooting Ever Stabilize?

The surprisingly malleable timeline of the Las Vegas shooting reminds me of this quotation from George Orwell’s 1984: “History has […]

The Tyranny of Administrative Power

As freedom erodes, we look for causes. We blame a succession of presidents eager to issue more executive orders and […]

Female Jihadis – Full Measure News

To borrow from an old phrase, it turns out that behind every successful radical Islamic terrorist, is a woman, a […]

The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare

It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been […]

The Case Against Overcriminalization

Lavrenti Beria, the infamous head of the Soviet secret police under Joseph Stalin, supposedly once said, “Show me the man […]

The World Is Getting Freer, Faster

Earlier today, the Fraser Institute published the 21st edition of its annual Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report. The Canadian think-tank uses 42 data […]

City Governments Are Selling off Land Lot by Lot

Last fall, the Arizona Republic ran a huge expose of a strange problem in the city. The city owns 1,400 […]

The Rich Are Being Pillaged, and Everyone Suffers

To observe that a tax reform primarily helps the rich is supposed to doom it. It should be the opposite: […]

Socialism Shouldn’t Be Let Off the Hook for Nightmares Like North Korea

Socialism is popular in Britain, especially among the young. Survey after survey confirms it. More precisely, socialism is popular in the abstract. It is popular […]

Tax Hells, Not Tax Havens, Are the Problem

Not everybody appreciates my defense of tax havens. A Clinton Administration official accused me of disloyalty to America. The OECD threatened to throw me […]