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No doubt the Founders would not have needed Ben Franklin’s invention of bifocals to see the contrast and irony – and the towering insult in the…
Early each semester in political-economics classes, I try to show students all the forms of pernicious statism, i.e. forced collectivism, and one of…
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Yes. You read the headline correctly.
Matt Lamb reports for The College Fix:
“University of California Los Angeles medical students were…
Perhaps inspired by his Department of Energy Head (DOE) Jennifer Granholm, who pocketed almost $2 million in stock options given to her by an “…
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Appearing Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” hosted by fellow Native American Ari Melber (he was born in Seattle, she, in Oklahoma City), Sen…
Big government Manhattan progressives adored it. Left-leaning record store owners and booksellers piled up the CD and tomes. The glitterati…
It’s often stunning to see how foolish politicians can be.
Take Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R), who last Thursday allowed political correctness and…
Without intending to do so, Goya CEO Robert Unanue, and, separately, an Argentine Jesuit, are revealing the error and falsity of Pope Francis’…
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If Americans who understand what drives inflation and the boom-bust cycle in economics didn’t have reason to cringe at the monopolistic existence…
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The saying goes that there is always a silver lining to a dark cloud, and, despite the fact that many of the economic hardships Americans suffer…
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One of the essential terms I teach students in economics is what Adam Smith described in his 1776 treatise “The Wealth of Nations” as “…
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(Update: 5/30/19 The original version of this story contained a quote from Reason magazine, that Reason has since removed. MRCTV removed that…