When James Monroe addressed Congress 200 years ago, many assumed his annual message would be limited to legislative initiatives. Since he had no spin doctors to help him explain his…
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Rating agency Moody’s just downgraded China’s credit outlook from stable to negative after doing the same to the US about a month ago. Does this mean that China is on…
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This past September the Cato Institute launched a major new initiative called “Defending Globalization.” The brainchild of Cato’s prolific international-trade scholar Scott Lincicome, Defending Globalization is a multimedia project designed…
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The era spanning from 1870 until the start of World War I is often called the “first age” of globalization. Trade volumes rose rapidly. Large swaths of the global population…
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Argentina just elected Javier Milei, a boisterous, wild-haired economist with a pro-market agenda to transform the nation’s economy. After decades of Peronist rule, Argentina is now home to the first…
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As recently reported by Reason’s Eric Boehm, “87 percent of Americans Want Politicians To Do Something Before Social Security Runs Out of Money.” Further, a new Taxpayer Protection Alliance poll…
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Epic Games and Google are currently embroiled in an antitrust grudge match. The Fortnite developer sued the tech giant in the District Court of Northern California over purportedly anti-competitive business…
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Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner…
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What can happen when societies decouple from the Western liberal tradition and adopt collectivist frameworks that abandon reason, the pursuit of truth, and the core principles of civilization? On this…
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With the festivities, parades, and obligatory social media commentary safely out of the way, it may now be safe to express my growing ambivalence over modern America’s embrace of martial…