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Must matters of law and public policy be dull? Should they be the exclusive provinces of lawyers, legislators, lobbyists, economists, and statisticians? Or can they be animated by lofty and exciting moral principles put…

n 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an open letter to shareholders he was moving to Lugano, Switzerland. “My capital will continue working in Norway,” wrote the fishing magnate turned…

When Charles Ponzi’s investment opportunity to sell international postage stamps was exposed to be a scam in 1920, its basic premise would forever be associated with the man’s name. A Ponzi Scheme promises investors massive…

Ask most Americans where the slogan “No taxation without representation!” came from and the likely response will be “American colonists protesting against Britain in the 1760s.” But the spirit, if not the precise letter of…

More families turned to homeschooling during the Covid response, but many are continuing to choose this option today, even as schools have returned to normal. Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey…

Over the course of your career, you will likely encounter a number of different bosses, some good, and some not so good. Eventually you may find yourself in the position to lead others, perhaps on a project team, or even in a…

For more than a quarter-century, we’ve been hearing predictions about the demise of cable—and with it, cable news.  A Pew Research article from 2000 showed the trends began more than 30 years ago, when consumption of…

Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a child-centered educational solution for local families. It was late 2021 and the parents realized that nearly two years…

Earlier this month, as wildfires ravaged Canada, the Northeastern United States experienced heavy air pollution problems from the smoke. The out of control fires and subsequent pollution is a tragedy, certainly. But the fact…

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare,” wrote Mark Twain more than a century ago. If moral courage means knowing what’s right and both doing it and defending it in…