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President Joe Biden recently tapped Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, replacing Rochelle Walensky , whose resignation will go into effect at the end of the month. Like most people, until this…

What is money? If you live in the United States, you probably think of money as dollar bills. People in Japan might think of the Yen. People in France, Germany, and Italy might think of the Euro. Economists Milton Friedman…

In the book Green Tyranny—a fantastic history of the environmental alarmism movement—author Rupert Darwall lays responsibility for the beginning of this movement at the feet of the Germans and the Swedes. In 1967, a Swedish…

They say there’s two things you learn in a co-op program. What you love to do, and what you don’t love to do. In my co-op experience, I learned almost exclusively the latter. My first placement was particularly brutal.

State Farm announced this week it will no longer accept homeowner insurance applications in California , where it has long been a leading insurance provider. In a press release , America’s largest property insurance company…

I received an interesting follow up question from Heath B. He says, “This is a follow up question for the post you wrote about ‘Why Does the Federal Reserve Target 2% Inflation?’ Milton Friedman once stated that, ‘Inflation…

“He who pays the piper calls the tune” is a familiar proverb. Wiktionary tells us it means that “The person paying for something is the one who gets to say how it should be done.” It’s difficult if not impossible to argue…

My 16-year-old daughter just got her first part-time job, working at a local coffee shop. She comes home beaming after her shifts, energized by the collaboration with her coworkers and the reward of busily serving customers…

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once offered a bit of stoic wisdom about the importance of being grateful for the things we have. “Treat what you don't have as nonexistent,” Aurelius wrote in Meditations. ”Look at what…

Many intellectuals dislike capitalism. Thirty-five percent of respondents with high school, or some college, said they had “favorable” views of socialism, according to Pew Research Center. But more than forty percent of those…