Markets

How Zoning Makes Housing Expensive and Cities Less Interesting
Walk through almost any beloved old Manhattan neighborhood and you quickly run into a strange fact: much of the city people love would be illegal to build today. In 2016, The New York Times published an analysis titled “Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today.” Using data from Quantierra, the […]
Law

Subjects and Citizens: A Treatise by Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has completely reframed the distinctly American idea of citizenship as a two-way agreement between the person and the political community. It is not conferred by birth alone but also requires domicile, which means allegiance and the forsaking of other political loyalties.
Culture

Why a Leftist Betrayed Your Friendship
Someone who cared about you—perhaps genuinely, perhaps for years—decided that their framework mattered more than you did.
Politics

Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It
How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.
Are Taxes “the Price We Pay for Civilization”?
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values
Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
Blaming Patents Won’t Lower Drug Prices
Intersectionality vs. American Individualism
The Outlook for the Future of Capitalism (Part 10 of 10)
World

How Net Zero Helped Bring Down British Steel
Nationalization shifts risk to taxpayers.
Science & Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Not End the Demand for Human Labor
The AI boom is just the latest chapter in mankind’s upward rise that began with the Industrial Revolution and the power loom more than two centuries ago.