The Government Shouldn’t Decide Who May Practice Law
Occupational licensure is a species of political favoritism, invariably enacted to protect incumbent practitioners by restricting competition. People can usually...
George Leef
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Part 2
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich — How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the Worldby Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and...
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Part 1
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich — How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and...
Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program
In recent weeks, the tumult in Washington has largely centered on the issue of student loans. Almost every Democrat and...
Is There Any Chance of Restoring Our Lost Freedom?
Sometimes I think about what America was like when my grandfather was young. In 1908, when he was 22, he...
Should We Replace Racial Preferences with Socio-Economic Preferences?
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that challenge the legality of racial preferences in college admissions, one...
Affirmative Action – Help or Hindrance for the Underrepresented?
Starting in the days of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, American colleges and universities embraced the idea that one way for...
American Law Schools: Becoming More and More Dysfunctional
Law school in The United States used to be merely a needless barrier to entry into the market for legal...
Thomas Piketty Strikes Again
French economist Thomas Piketty became internationally famous with the publication in 2014 of his book Capital in the 21st Century....
Yes, Senator, “Enough is Enough” – But Not How You Think
Foremost among the politicians who believe that there are votes to be garnered by having the federal government do something...
How Do the Feds Get Away with That?
The tentacles of federal power over the states, localities, and private institutions have been reaching further and further. Consider, for...
Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
Charles Murray has been writing about bad public policy in the United States for a long time. He first made...
