by Donald J. Boudreaux | Sep 22, 2019 | Price Controls
Allowing prices to rise to heights that accurately reveal the intense desperation of the situation is the surest means of encouraging additional supplies of vital goods to be rushed ASAP to the area.
by Scott Holleran | Sep 21, 2019 | Asia
Hong Kong’s protest leader Joshua Wong recently Tweeted this image [by @harcourtromanticist] of a painting, which imitates Liberty Leading the People (1830) by French romanticist painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), whose painting is at the Louvre in Paris. This... by Max Gulker | Sep 19, 2019 | Elections
I’d take whatever Sanders calls socialism over accountable capitalism any day, because rather than starve the dynamic private sector of resources, Warren’s vision stifles the dynamism itself.
by Walter Williams | Sep 18, 2019 | Education
Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the Department of Education’s proposal ought to be summarily fired.
by Walter Williams | Sep 18, 2019 | Education
I’m wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity.
by John Stossel | Sep 18, 2019 | Education
Education bureaucrats love working in a monopoly where they are basically guaranteed jobs.
by Larry Elder | Sep 18, 2019 | CULTURE
The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there’s no serious discussion in the black community about government dependency; school choice; the damage done by high taxes, excessive regulation and laws like minimum wage; and why blacks should rethink their allegiance to the Democratic Party.
by Walter Williams | Sep 17, 2019 | Crime
Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing.
by Richard M. Ebeling | Sep 17, 2019 | POLITICS
Throughout the 19th century, a primary means for the provision of what today we call the “social safety nets” was by the private sector outside of government.