Opponents of affirmative action in university and college admissions have long decried the disingenuous methods the institutions use to circumvent legal restrictions on the practice. Before the recent decision in…
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Was Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) the win conservatives and many others assume it is? Before celebrating too much, we might pause to consider that the case didn’t…
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In modern liberal society if a seller of some output – say, yo-yos – retires or switches his commercial efforts from the selling of yo-yos to the selling of yogurt,…
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I often have conversations with people who ask what I do. When I tell them, many say, “Oh, wow, I don’t know much about economics!” Here is a blanket endorsement:…
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More good news on the inflation front: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew by only 0.2 percent in June. That corresponds to a 2.2 percent continuously compounded annual inflation rate,…
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France has been rocked by riots since the June 27 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk by a police officer in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. Perceived as an incident…
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Recently, the AIER’s Senior Editor James Harrigan asked rhetorically, “When was the last time a politician of any description used the phrase ‘sacred honor’ with a straight face?” Jefferson, Harrigan…
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There is apparently a solution to the climate crisis: sailing! This is a serious proposal by the French company Airseas, the proud creator of Seawing. This high-tech sail will, allegedly,…
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Homeschooling continues to attract families. After years of roughly 3 percent of students being educated at home, the pandemic spurred another increase in home education. Recent data show as many…
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The US Government Sent Millions of Grant Dollars to Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show
In June, The New York Times ran an exposé detailing the tragedy that we may never know the origins of COVID-19. “For three years, the U.S. government has been tied…