Markets
Can’t Afford a House? Blame Government, Not Big Investors for Higher Housing Costs
Government, not investors, is the root problem of housing prices. Rather than take on barriers to construction, politicians find it easier to blame Wall Street.
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
A Bet Between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich Demonstrates The Most Important Check in Economics
The Simon–Ehrlich wager and why predictions of resource scarcity keep getting it wrong.
Book Review of “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie
Why a Leftist Betrayed Your Friendship
Western Civilization, Education, and the Racist Road to Barbarism
Rediscovering The American Ideal
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
On July 4th: Love America or Lose Her
A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government
Politics
How To Make Medical Care Affordable
Rather than create more government subsidies, policymakers should eliminate supply-side regulations that reduce price competition and affordability.
Laissez-Faire Artificial Intelligence in the Surgical Operating Room
The Peverse Economics of Psychiatric Medication: Gatekept and Overprescribed
Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It
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?
World
How Net Zero Helped Bring Down British Steel
Nationalization shifts risk to taxpayers.
Science & Technology
The Case Against Social Media “Addiction”
By Jeffrey A. Singer and Adam Omary A movement is underway to classify heavy social media use as a form of addiction. Advocacy groups, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and a growing number of lawmakers are treating the proposition as settled science. In a landmark California...