Opinion
A liberal-arts education is about learning how to be free
Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and wisdom but as a license to do whatever you want.
Opinion
Vote like an Anti-Federalist this year
Everything the Anti-Federalists worried about in 1789 has come to pass.
Opinion
Measuring value added is essential
Some North Carolina teachers have strongly objected to the use of value-added assessments for evaluating schools, instructional practices, and teachers themselves.
Opinion
Don’t fear a robot invasion
Claims that machines will displace workers and lead to stagnation, poverty, and social unrest have been made for centuries, despite the fact that they always turn out to be wrong.
News
Friday Interview: Promoting Capitalism Over Cronysim
RALEIGH — Some businesses would rather avoid competition and prefer instead to rely on government help in the form of special incentives, regulations, or other anti-competitive policies. Fred Smith has spent his career fighting that approach to business. Smith is founder and chairman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and directs CEI’s Center for Advancing Capitalism. He discussed his work with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
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Friday Interview: Cleaned By Capitalism
RALEIGH — Even capitalism’s biggest fans have to admit that industrialization has made our world dirtier. At least that seems to be conventional wisdom. Dr. Donald Boudreaux, professor of economics at George Mason University, challenges that notion. Earlier this year, he spoke to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on the theme “Cleaned By Capitalism.” Boudreaux discussed the topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
The Remarkable Potato
It’s hard to overstate the spud’s worldwide importance.
Opinion
Hiding Under the Sheetz
More complaints about gasoline prices are appearing in the media, but with a new and different twist. This time, prices are too low for some people's liking. The source of the problem? Price competition. As you might guess, though, it's not consumers who are complaining.
Opinion
The Good Work of Our Ancient Terraformers
The global-warming issue was already more complicated than many activists and politicians were willing to admit. Now a new study introduces another possibility to ponder.
Opinion
No. 132: Living It Up: Socially Redeeming But Economically Lacking
• James B. Twitchell: Living It Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury; Columbia University Press; 2002; 309 pp; $29.95
