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Economics is Not Easy
" Since everyone looks to prices for accurate information about relative scarcity, having prices that are being inflated artificially is misleading, and results in multiple different economic actors all trying to expand…
The Federal Government Was Funding the Research of Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show
In June, The New York Times ran an exposé detailing the tragedy that we may never know the origins of COVID-19. “For three years, the U.S. government has been tied in knots over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic,…
How Loan Forgiveness Hurts Taxpayers
A few weeks ago, I argued the Biden Administration would use the new SAVE plan to enact student loan forgiveness with or without the approval of the Supreme Court. Since then, the administration has announced details which…
How a Corrupt US Senator Helped Give Us the 17th Amendment
Mark Twain never cared much for politicians. A famous remark falsely attributed to him nonetheless stuck for decades because it resonated as quintessentially Twain. He was supposed to have said, upon the passing of a…
Democrats Are Throwing Kids Off the School Bus
Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice for tens of thousands of children, mostly…
Democrats Are Throwing Kids Off the School Bus
Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice for tens of thousands of children, mostly…
The US Government Sent Millions of Grant Dollars to Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show
"There’s little reason to believe the Chinese government would be forthcoming if their investigation determined they were responsible for COVID-19. Similarly, there’s little reason to believe the US government, which was…
12 Gandhi Quotes on Non-Violence, Force, and the State
For a long time, I didn’t quite understand the infatuation with Gandhi. As a teenager, I knew little about him, beyond the fact that he fiercely opposed Great Britain's colonial rule through non-violence and was…
The Muddled Ethics of Netflix’s ‘King of Clones’ Documentary
Netflix’s new hit documentary King of Clones tells the tragedy of Hwang Woo-suk, a South Korean scientist who pioneered stem cell research and cloning. The documentary aims to portray Hwang Woo-suk as a scientist who fell…
Where Have All the Workers Gone? Zoning and Its Unintended Consequences.
"Regulations such as the Endangered Species Act, wetlands regulations, and coastal zone management laws may have desirable end goals from one point of view, but invariably make housing more expensive." ~ Craig Richardson
