Opinion
Bookstore rebirth teaches a crucial lesson
By the early 2010s, the future of physical bookstores — and even physical books as a medium — appeared bleak. Then came some surprising developments.
Opinion
Anti-tariff SCOTUS brief features basic lesson on trade deficits
It’s hard to justify a national emergency based on a 50-year fact of American economic life.
Opinion
Strong economies are also messy
Central planners promise to achieve comparable or better results without the “mess” of market economics. They are misleading at least themselves.
Opinion
Searching Sowell for wisdom about tariffs’ likely impact
A renowned economist from North Carolina highlights the history of tariffs' negative unintended consequences.
Opinion
Remote work yields benefits and costs
Remote work accounted for only 7% of work days in 2019. By 2023, the ratio was four times higher. The employment rate for disabled workers also shot up.
Opinion
Sowell laments Progressives’ history of certainty, dismissiveness
Public discourse suffers when one side in a debate refuses to listen to the other side's arguments.
Opinion
Of course books can be dangerous
A thought occurred to me as I was traveling through the North Carolina Piedmont last week. The notion didn’t have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way. It was one of an excellent series on the world’s political hot spots issued by a...
Opinion
The Biden angst
A lot of this angst is fueled by a truth many Americans have or should have known all along – the government is ill-equipped to solve most problems in society.
Opinion
Exposing the faulty narrative upon which critical race theory is built
Racism in America is “ordinary, not aberrational” and “the usual way society does business,” according to critical race theorists. If this is true, how do they prove it? With critical race theory influencing how our children are taught and treated in schools, the answer to this question is vital. Merely asking for evidence or reasoned...
News
Lawmakers honor Gastonia native Thomas Sowell on 91st birthday
Legislators in both the N.C. House and Senate took a short break from pressing business today to mark the 91st birthday of Thomas Sowell. The Gastonia native has injected important economic concepts into high-profile national public policy debates for decades. John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke had urged state officials to honor Sowell during a...
Opinion
To anyone who thinks the liberal arts should be a thing of the past
Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For the ancient Greeks and many modern Westerners, the liberal arts have been thought necessary to cultivate good citizenship in a government of the people, by the...
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Look Before You Tweet
Every false report spread virally as fact serves to insult true victims and render them less likely to be believed.
