Markets

The Fed’s Fatal Conceit
In my experience, the Federal Reserve is guilty of what F. A. Hayek (1989) called “‘the fatal conceit”–that is, the belief that smart people can do the impossible. I don’t care how smart you are or how great your mathematical models are, you cannot coordinate the economic activity of seven billion people on this planet.
Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders’s Credit Card Caps Hurt the Poor
Insights on The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism
End Emergency Tariffs
The Great Gold Reset: Why This Isn’t 1979 All Over Again
Will Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Make America Great Again?
“A Gaslit Asset Class”
Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism
Law

Fixing Airport Security Screening
Congress should hand over TSA’s screening operations to the nation’s airports, which could then contract them to expert private security firms.
Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech
Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Government Shouldn’t Play “Truth Police”
Charlie Kirk: A Gift For Embracing Critics and Debating Ideas
The U.S. Constitution, the Bedrock of American Freedom
Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”?
Why Free Speech Matters
Culture

Philosophical Malpractice: January 6th and the Closed Room
A mind operating from prior conclusions does not go looking for evidence that might challenge them. It looks for evidence that confirms, and mistakes the confirmation for proof.
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 3: The Choice Between Stasis and Infinity
The Left’s War Against America and Western Civilization
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 2: Why Geographic Determinism Fails
Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 1: The Island Paradox
Ten Commandments Ruling Underscores That Progressives Need School Choice
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
Victory for Choice: Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Upheld
Politics

What a Plate of Huevos Rancheros Taught Me About Open Immigration
Immigration is our lifeblood and has made America great. Let’s keep America great. Let’s make America great again.
How Certificate-of-Need (CON) Laws Hurt Rural Communities
Missouri v. Biden: A Free Speech Victory, Sort of
Taken Hostage
A Transformative President: The Meaning of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
World

Putin’s Collectivist Ideology & Russia’s Cult of the State
The reason why totalitarian dictators are so dangerous is that they really believe in what they say and do.
Science & Technology

The Coward’s Epistemology
The future on offer is extraordinary. That should make us angry—genuinely, productively angry—that a coward’s epistemology is positioned to foreclose it.