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The Tax Code: A Playground for the Few, A Labyrinth for the Many
"The tax code’s complexity has created an environment in which tax-preparation services, lobbyists, favored industries, and politicians thrive, while taxpayers struggle to make sense of ever-changing rules and…
Don’t Call Scandinavian Countries ‘Socialist’
One of the great delusions of our day is that Scandinavian countries are “socialist” and so America should be socialist too. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and others of the ultra-Left repeatedly claim that…
Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy
Every schoolkid knows — or used to know — that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of government. That's because Congress —…
Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy
Every schoolkid knows — or used to know — that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of government. That's because Congress —…
Industrial Policy Does Indeed Fall Victim to the Knowledge Problem
"Prices, asset values, and profits and losses determined in open markets in which people spend and invest their own (and only their own) money are the only sources of information in a modern economy about which resource…
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did when I attended them in the 1980s and 90s, when they also looked quite similar to how they did when my father…
Hayek and Bitcoin
"By seemingly enormous coincidence, Satoshi (assuming he was unaware at the time), would have probably been delighted to learn that in Hayek’s same 'sly roundabout way' video interview, he held up a copy of The…
Two New Medical Studies Show How Mask Mandates Failed—and May Have Harmed Countless People
I have a friend, a very smart fellow, who early in the pandemic began masking. At the time, masks were not being recommended by health authorities, let alone mandated. I didn’t think much about his decision. It didn’t affect…
Raise a Standard for Others by Improving Yourself
“The individual is the only one who can attend to the degree and the perfection of his own variability. Others cannot in a creative sense, do anything to him. If they would help, they must limit themselves to what they can do…
Reflections on Covid Policies from Dissident Scientists, Philosophers, Artists, and More
Why would a 66-year-old medical writer like me oppose pandemic policies designed to keep her safe? Why would my despair at these policies lead me to consult a psychiatrist and try LSD in the middle of a lake? My book…
