David Beito’s The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Oakland: Independent Institute, 2023) is one of at…
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The 15th BRICS Summit ended on August 24th, as expected, with new member states. The core members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) were joined by Saudi Arabia, United…
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Economy
The Country Music Singer Who Took Aim at Welfare 50 Years Before Oliver Anthony—and Also Hit #1 on the Music Charts
Oliver Anthony’s blue-collar anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” is the most-talked-about song in America. Since debuting on August 7, the song has racked up 45 million views on YouTube…
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One Hundred years ago, President Warren Harding died unexpectedly. Occupying the White House for a little more than two-and-a-half years, he was a popular President, having been elected with the…
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A Review of M. Nolan Gray’s “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it”
As an academic who has devoted an entire career to the study of markets with an emphasis on real property, I have reached a point where I am asked to…
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With inflation now much lower than it was a year ago, many pundits are considering where the Federal Reserve should go from here. Nick Timiraos surveys three options in the…
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I like to say “I’m not a bitcoin maxi—I’m a bitcoin mostly.” That’s because cryptocurrencies are part of an evolving ecosystem. The individual technologies evolve, and the entire ecosystem changes,…
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Last month, a group of center-right policy experts and commentators released a statement of principles affirming the traditional values of American conservatives. Calling themselves “Freedom Conservatives,” they reaffirmed “the distinctive…
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Most of America’s land area is zoned, a government regulation that tells landowners what they’re allowed to build in different places, and how much of it they can build. Some…
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We have made fantastic strides in our understanding of how the physical and social worlds work. While the Great Enrichment of the last three centuries or so that happened because…