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When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible. But then I read Pope Francis' updated encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is…

When I was seven, my class was taken to an auditorium in our elementary school. There was a projector in the room, and we packed in on the floor, criss-cross applesauce, with children in other classes. The lights were turned…

David Brooks is sorry. The New York Times columnist admitted he “screwed up” when he posted on social media a photo of his meal — a burger, fries, and a whiskey — at a New Jersey airport, along with these two sentences. “This…

Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is…

This week I have a question from Heath who frequently writes to me for Ask an Economist. He has a question about a specific policy out of Florida. Heath writes: Recently Florida passed House Bill 637 which requires automobile…

"From the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a persistent government effort to silence and marginalize those who questioned NIH’s policies and conclusions." ~Jon Miltimore

Profits have a bad press. Perhaps second to private property (theft, according to Bakunin) profits are the devil incarnate in the view of our friends on the left. In the star-studded movie “Reds,” the hero, played by Warren…

Why has Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) declared war on credit cards? Americans are in love with paying with plastic. Perhaps too much so — given that credit card debt now exceeds $1 trillion. But paying with plastic has become a…