“Journalists don’t go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States,” John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, said in a recent video ..read more

Economics shows up in our daily lives all the time, and sometimes in very quirky ways ..read more

This is wisdom the world yearned to hear in 1974. Fifty years later, it needs to hear it again ..read more

There are a lot of arguments put forward for antitrust laws, but they all have problems ..read more

Did you know that two of the most famous samurai in history were not Japanese ..read more

It’s time to start raising the alarm on federal spending. In fact, it’s long past time ..read more

Sometimes, these new schools and spaces will fail, just as 20 percent of all U.S. businesses do within their first two years, and nearly half do within their first five years ..read more

When a person is hired to fix cars, he gives up what would otherwise be his right to play golf. And he is paid to relinquish his golfing. He voluntarily agrees to limit his options! It is hardly a coherent argument against employment that it entails no golf-playing on the job ..read more

For those who’ve forgotten, Sweden was excoriated by corporate media and politicians for its lighter-touch Covid-19 strategy.  Here’s a sample of headlines: • “Why the Swedish Model for Fighting COVID-19 Is a Disaster” (Time, October 2020). • “The Inside Story of How Sweden Botched Its Coronavirus Response” (Foreign Policy, December 2020). • “Sweden Stayed Open and More People Died of Covid-19, but the Real Reason May Be Something Darker” (Forbes, 2020). • “Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale” (New York Times, July 2020). • “I Just Came Home to Sweden. I’m Horrified by the Coron ..read more

One of the arguments for traffic violation fines is that they make the road a safer place, but does this hold up ..read more