Big Tobacco, Small Minds
Is your retirement account invested in the stock market through a common S&P 500 indexed mutual fund? Does your company’s...
Phillip W. Magness
Did Tipping Come from Slavery? The 1619 Project Lies Again
Is the common act of tipping your waiter at a restaurant really a successor to slavery’s harmful legacy? Does tipping...
The 1619 Project Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
When Nikole Hannah-Jones published the 1619 Project in August 2019, it initially came under an unfair line of attack from...
The Myth of “Adjunctification” and Disappearing Tenure in Higher Ed
Is higher education being “adjunctified,” with long-term tenure track faculty facing replacement by low-paid part-time professors? A recent editorial from...
Everything Nancy MacLean Doesn’t Like is a Conspiracy Theory
In her 2017 book Democracy in Chains, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean uses economist James M. Buchanan as a point...
Adam Smith, Capitation, and the Nonsense That Is the Proposed Wealth Tax
A wealth tax, recently redubbed a tax on “unrealized capital gains,” is all the rage in Washington, D.C. these days....
Eyes on the Politicized Prize
The selection of economist David Card as co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel memorial prize for Economics has, curiously, revived an...
How a Psychic Healer Blog Convinced the Government to Fund “Long Covid” Research
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) is exceptionally keen on the study of “Long Covid.” The federal agency recently allocated...
Quacks in the Ivory Tower: How Conspiracy Theorizing Took Over Lockdown Science
Is the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) simply a front for a secret global eugenics plot, hatched at AIER by the...
