Jeffrey Miron and Peter Van Doren From Peter Van Doren: My colleague Jeffrey Miron recently argued that the federal government should not fund research. Here I...
Walter Olson No civil rights law on the books requires “viewpoint diversity” in university admissions or hiring or creates a protected class of students...
Joseph Bishop-Henchman President Donald Trump joins Presidents John Quincy Adams (1828), John Tyler (1842), Benjamin Harrison (1890), and Herbert Hoover (1930) in enacting a...
Michael Chapman Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) (Image: LefontQ on Wikimedia Commons.) To understand the folly of protectionism, including the use of tariffs, there is perhaps...
Alan Reynolds (Photo: historyonthenet.com) Benjamin M. Anderson was a legendary Austrian economist at Chase National Bank from 1929 to 1939, then a UCLA economist...
Chris Edwards President Trump’s anti-market impulses are taking center stage this week with his damaging tariff policies. But the president is occasionally supportive of...
Kyle Handley Recent critiques of international economics may surprise many actual economists. The latest rap against my profession is that we economists were too...
Adam N. Michel After five rounds of voting, the pass-through tax deduction was chosen as the worst tax expenditure. The 20 percent business deduction...
Jeffrey A. Singer In 2019, Colorado lawmakers reduced possession of up to four grams of most controlled substances to a misdemeanor. Distribution or sale of...