Dan Greenberg In my post last week, I explained how David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, provides an idiosyncratic account of the nature and impact of New York ...
Tad DeHaven Donald Trump’s autocratic instincts returned to the White House in January, but this time, no adults would be in the room to dissuade him from going full bore. On economic policy, an amped up tariffing agenda came as ...
In 1806 Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree, laying out his Continental System he hoped would starve Great Britain into submission through blockades and anti-trade policies. In the end, smuggling and outright avoidance of the law brought down his system and ...
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Woke Revolution: Up From Slavery and Back Again by H.V. Traywick, Jr., and finds Traywick’s observations have much credibility. ...
Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national and international experience in ministry and education. When they moved ...
Jeffrey Miron In 2019, Chinese authorities restricted minors to 90 minutes of video games on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends, while also banning gaming between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Authorities further tightened regulations in 2021, permitting play only from 8:00 p.m. to ...
The federal government taking an ownership stake in Intel is neither a promising new approach to governance nor an unprecedented leap into economic fascism. ...
Trump’s recent actions recall earlier episodes of US industrial policy, such as wartime production controls and financial crisis interventions, when governments assumed temporary stakes or direct control over private enterprise. ...
Assistant editor Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O’Keeffe on the Power and Market Podcast. The three discuss Trump’s acquisition of a stake in Intel, consider how monetary policy contributes to a lot of the national health problems MAHA ...
While monetary inflation has various economic effects—predictable and surprising, direct and indirect—this article seeks to explore the effects of monetary inflation on food. Specifically, debased currency leads to debased food. ...