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"The people of ancient Eshnunna can be forgiven for not understanding why setting the price of a kor of barley at a shekel of silver was a harmful policy. Today’s policymakers, who have the benefit of history and…

What would it take to once again make liberty “an idea whose time has come”? Or as Leonard Read put it, “What is it that the freedom philosophy most needs?” His answer was “several thousand creative thinkers, writers,…

"Now is not the time to 'retire the both-sides-ism trope.' It’s time that an anti-authoritarian coalition turns against affective polarization and the impulse to pick a team. It’s time we call out…

September takes me to Warsaw in Poland and Hanoi in Vietnam, two countries that have far more in common than most people think. They are two countries that suffered terrible wars—in Poland from 1939 to 1945, and in Vietnam…

"Humans still have those tribal instincts, and politicians can play them differently by defining who they include in their 'us' group and who they define as 'them.' Their strategies are fully…

"Pooley and Tupy find that every one-percent increase in population corresponds to a roughly one-percent decrease in the time-price. This formulation is elegantly simple and conveys the crucial point that population…

"By restoring the ability of its citizens to solve their own problems in their own ways, the American nation will remain imperfect, but a far better place than it is currently." ~ Robert E. Wright

Throughout the United States, several stories have emerged about politicians and organizations interested in ending the institution of tenure in higher education. In Florida, steps have been taken to review the work of…