South Carolina School Choice Law Benefits the Public
Anastasia P. Boden, Brent Skorup, and Alex Khoury In spring 2023, Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina signed a law establishing an Education Scholarship Trust Fund Program (Program). The law provides eligible low‐ and moderate‐income families with a trust fund account, up to
Lincoln Dissected
Thomas DiLorenzo, the President of the Mises Institute, has already reviewed Paul C. Graham’s Nonsense on Stilts: The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s Imaginary Nation (Shotwell Publishing 2024) in characteristically excellent fashion, but the book is so insightful that some further comments are warranted. It
Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC?
It is a running gag among the pro-Taiwan camp that if you were to ask ordinary folks about Taiwan five years earlier, most could not locate Taiwan on a map. At the time, matters relating to China were mainly debates
The “New” South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don’t Look for Things to Improve
Recently, South Africa evoked opposition in some quarters by bringing a case against Israel to the International Court of Justice on the account that the latter is perpetuating genocide against Palestinians. Israel’s response to the terror of Hamas has been
The Myth of the Unchanging Value of Gold
According to mainstream economics textbooks, one of the primary functions of money is to measure the value of goods and services exchanged on the market. A typical statement of this view is given by Frederic Mishkin in his textbook on