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The Uncommon Ella Knowles Haskell
Praise for the “common man” is all too common in the world. It’s the “uncommon” man (or woman) for whom we ought to be most grateful. Who in their right mind tells their children to aspire to nothing more than common or…
Free Speech Is Not Safe, but It Is Good
In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a classic children's story by C.S. Lewis, a group of children inadvertently discover a magical realm called "Narnia" hidden within a wardrobe in the mysterious mansion…
A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe…
Catch-up Inflation
"Where there is collective bargaining, workers go on strike to demand higher wages in order to catch-up to inflation. Elsewhere in the economy, individual workers bargain for higher wages with their current employer, or…
NIH’s Letter to Wuhan Lab Confirms Rand Paul Was Right and Fauci Was Wrong about Gain-of-Function
In the summer of 2021 , Americans saw something unusual: Dr. Anthony Fauci on tilt. "Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially," said the National…
If Biden Really Wants to Help Israel, He Must Stop the War on American Energy Now
President Joe Biden solemnly declared today that he stands with Israel against the terrorists. Great. But his actions in the White House have facilitated these homicidal attacks by financing our enemies. This was so…
No, John Oliver, Homeschooling Doesn’t Need More Regulation
Those of us who have homeschooled for years are accustomed to periodic calls for greater regulation of homeschooling. Whether it’s a Harvard professor or NPR, the hackneyed calls for regulating homeschoolers remain…
Honoring the Great Ludwig von Mises—50 Years after His Passing
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in the FEE Daily email newsletter. It was fifty years ago today that Ludwig von Mises took his final breath. Born on September 29, 1881, in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, the…
Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie
"America’s federal tax system remains steeply progressive, and no politically motivated data manipulation will ever alter that fact." ~Phil Magness
8 More Ideas on Thinking like an Economist
In my previous essay “8 Ideas That Will Teach You to Think Like an Economist,” I discussed eight fundamental principles of economic thinking. In this follow-up, I aim to introduce eight additional principles and perspectives…
