There’s No Place like Noam
Noam Chomsky's latest offering—a series of interviews—presents the best (and worst) of one of America's premier public intellectuals. Original Article: "There's No Place like Noam"
Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Make You a “White Supremacist”
Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, recently decried what she called the "war on wokeness" (by which she seems to mean, a war on CRT). According to her, this "war on wokeness" is "the road to
Friday Feature: Sweetwater Scholé
Colleen Hroncich Like many creative educational options, Sweetwater Scholé is evidence that necessity is the mother of invention. Despite a career working to advance educational freedom and school choice, Randan Steinhauser’s original education plan for her children was pretty typical. “When it
The Rights We Give Up under “Marsy’s Law”
Walter Olson I’ve written before about the set of state constitutional amendments known as “Marsy’s Law,” promoted as a bill of rights for crime victims. While the details vary from state to state, common provisions found in the package can deprive persons
Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?
Per Bylund joins Bob to discuss his new paper at the QJAE, which points out several flaws in the MMT claim that money is valued in order to pay taxes. Per's QJAE article: Mises.org/HAP398a
Edmund Phelps on Egalitarianism
The eminent economist Edmund Phelps is a “liberal” in the modern sense, not a libertarian, but in his recent book My Journeys in Economic Theory (Columbia University Press, 2023), he makes a number of points that those of us who
Biden Wants Sanctions for Uganda Because Its Government Passed Anti-LGBT Laws
In an excellent display of how US foreign policy can be used as a means of pandering to domestic interest groups, the Biden administration has threatened to impose sanctions on Uganda as punishment for that regime's adoption of new laws criminalizing
Is the Bank Secrecy Act Effective at Stopping Crime? No One Knows
Nicholas Anthony Although Americans often think that financial privacy is protected by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, financial institutions like banks and credit unions are required by the Bank Secrecy Act to regularly report financial activity to the federal
Banks Are Lending Less Money, and That’s a Formula for Recession
A new Fed survey shows that banks are cutting back on lending big time. Over the past thirty-five years, this almost always predicts recession. Our economy can't survive without endless new infusions of easy money. Original Article: "Banks Are Lending Less Money, and
Is the US Banking Crisis Over? It Has Barely Begun
According to some commentators, the US banking crises is over, or at least can be easily managed by the Federal Reserve System. In addition, the Fed chairman has vouched for the health of the US banking sector. However, the banking crisis