Opinion
Tamny Makes Econ Accessible Using Pop Culture References
John Tamny promotes the benefits of laissez-faire policy to a general audience by using sports and popular culture to convey basic economic truths.
Opinion
Economist Highlights Misery Caused By 10 Policy Mistakes
Burton Abrams lists 10 of the worst government blunders of the last century.
Opinion
Staddon Snuffs Out Arguments About ‘Societal’ Harms of Smoking
Smokers are making a trade-off — an increased risk of severe medical problems at an earlier age in exchange for the enjoyment they get from smoking, Duke University neurobiology professor John Staddon argues.
Opinion
Walters Finds Cities Need Free-Market Atmosphere To Thrive
Cities decline when governments fail to protect property rights.
Opinion
Folsoms Recount Government Business Disasters
The economic historians provide numerous examples that will leave you asking, "How could politicians be this stupid?"
Opinion
Cell Phone Education
Colleges are struggling with the best way to respond to students who record lectures without the consent of the speakers.
Opinion
Obama Rating Plan For Colleges Could Hurt The Poor
A proposal linking a college's overall ratings to finanical aid funding could harm schools that do only a few things well.
Opinion
Vargas Llosa Sketches an Optimistic Argument for Immigration
The book’s key insight is that the movement of people across political boundaries is no different from the movement of natural resources or finished products.
Opinion
Princeton Scholar Spells Out Consequences of Racial Preferences
Racial preference policies (in education and elsewhere), far from helping to bring the nation together, keep the old sores of discrimination from healing.
News
Parties Compete on College Prices
RALEIGH — Two rival bills under discussion in the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee would get the federal government involved in the debate on higher-education tuition increases. Both bills, however, take different approaches to make college more affordable for students. The Republican plan would call for a College Affordability Index and would give more information to parents and students about college costs. The Democrat plan would also call for an affordability index, however it would punish states that decrease higher-education spending. The bills are part of an effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act in time for passage of the 2005 fiscal budget.
Opinion
No. 118: The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality: Phillips Separates Myth From Reality
Lochner v. New York is an often-mentioned but misunderstood 1905 Supreme Court decision that lends its name to this excellent analysis of constitutional jurisprudence by Professor Michael J. Phillips. Phillips, professor emeritus of business administration at Indiana University, has written probably the best book by a nonlawyer on any aspect of constitutional law, and the best survey of the Lochner line of cases by anyone. This book is a penetrating revisionist history of a key period in our legal history.
