POLITICS

Blaming Patents Won’t Lower Drug Prices

Congress is considering a bill that could deter billions of dollars of medical research investments, undermining U.S. global leadership as a healthcare innovator and harming U.S. patients That’s not Congress’s intent, of course. Lawmakers are trying to fix perceived...

Politicians on the Take?

Politicians on the Take?

It’s bad enough when politicians kill businesses with COVID-19 shutdowns. It’s worse if they kill a business because the owner won’t give money to their friends.

Big Spending Joe Biden

Big Spending Joe Biden

Historically, Democrats moved left during the primaries, and then back toward the center once nominated. Not this time. Biden’s people met with Bernie Sanders’ staff and concocted a grotesque orgy of spending.

Government Failure

Government Failure

Scour the newspaper any day of the week and you will read stories detailing the many failures of the federal, state, and local governments or agencies, and of their stupendous ability to commit the same mistakes over and over again. Yet these agencies are the one that people turn to in times of troubles or needs.

Supposed “Varieties” of Capitalism

Supposed “Varieties” of Capitalism

Does capitalism exist in “varieties,” as scholars began to insist two decades ago, or is it a unique social system fundamentally unlike all others? If there is a “pure” form of capitalism, what alterations or transformations render it impure? How impure must it become before we should cease calling it capitalism and call it something else instead?

America: A Racist Nation?

America: A Racist Nation?

The recent murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis was ghastly and reminds us of the hideous racial injustice directed against black Americans in the nation’s past.

Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism

Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism

If there is a chance to not only pull society away from the social and economic abyss towards which it is moving, but return it to a path more in the direction of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equal individual rights under partial rule of law and constitutionally limited government, it requires resisting the pessimism that all is lost and irreversible, and having the courage and willingness to try to restore the free society. 

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