By Neal McCluskey for Cato The Trump administration is looking for federal spending to cut, which seems pretty urgent given the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. The US Department of Education (US ED), which is neither constitutional, competent, nor effective, is...
Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
In a full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it. He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children–even how self-interest is important for your …
The Nvidia “way” is Tae Kim’s attempt to characterize what makes Nvidia different from other companies. He identifies three components: a strive for excellence, hiring practicesm and generous and widespread stock programs.
American and European intellectuals had been comparing the merits of a hypothetical world based on equality, reason and nature to the world in which they lived — based on habit, custom and superstition. The American Revolution tested their theories in the real world.
With the capacity to print forever, the US could fund its empire, fund its welfare state, fund its gigantic budget, fund its military, and all without bothering with actually doing much of anything beyond sitting behind screens.
In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
Disney has misread the room for a very long time, and seems implausibly slow to course correct. One might expect market signals would be enough to shock the internal culture of an enterprise. Ideology, however, can be more powerful than even failing profitability statem…
Individualism is the moral code recognizing that a human being is first, foremost, and always an autonomous being, a bodily and spiritual individual, not a nameless, faceless, fungible, easily replicable member of a tribe or collective.
It is refreshing to come across films in which profit-driven business is portrayed as benign and/or that show businessmen as heroes. Although such films are rare, they do exist and are often quite entertaining.
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
A Complete Unknown is a celebration of Bob Dylan’s songwriting genius.
A new edition of the Intelligent Investor integrates Graham’s classic insights with today’s market realities.
One of the most distinguished intellectuals of his generation, Thomas Sowell’s classical-liberal worldview continues to challenge, inspire, and empower research across the social sciences.
To use reason to produce, trade and maximize profits, businesses require freedom.
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
What should be the purpose of the news media?
Cultural movements do not spring out of a vacuum. The woke movement is the cultural manifestation of the underlying philosophy of postmodernism.
The horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were the result of a long evolution of ideas leading to a consolidation of power in the central government in the quest for “social justice.”
Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
Review of “What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays” by C. Bradley Thompson (2023).
For Israel, the issue is: keep fighting or die. Our universities and intellectuals should continue to support them.
Berkeley economist Brad DeLong has an exceptional ability to get just about everything on the 20th century fantastically wrong in his book “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.”
There is a clear double standard going on here, which the Left is expert at exploiting.
Not one of these “rights” can be provided to anyone without some other American reduced in his freedom.
In contrast to those who believe that experts can engineer progress for Africa, Magatte Wade argues that what is needed is deregulation, entrepreneurship, and investment.
Universities cannot morally punish anti-black racism while tolerating anti-Jewish racism, even if the First Amendment protects both.
Educational practices linked to school shootings demand an investigation of the public schools.
The individual, according to the Progressive intellectuals, existed, not for his own personal happiness, but to self-sacrificially serve others.
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