Opinion
Words matter: Part 1
We often talk past each other because we use different language, even if we all speak or write English.
Opinion
Steer clear of auto insurance safe-driving discounts
Data monitoring could be the reason your rates go up even if you’re really a safe driver. Progressive, for example, says that 20% of those who enroll in its UBI program end up seeing a rate increase.
Opinion
NC leading a public-transit revolution, but it looks more like Uber than buses and trains
If on-demand microtransit catches on across the country and replaces light rail and buses, North Carolina will have had a major role in the story.
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
Racism is dead.
Racism is dead. And progressives have killed it. However, you will see no celebration for this monumental occasion. You will see no victory lap from progressives. This is soul-crushing news for progressives as they are forced to confront their existential crisis. I have been meditating on the idea that racism is dead as a cultural...
Opinion
Tax debates feature many myths
Is our tax system rigged in favor of the wealthy? Hardly. America’s tax system is either modestly or moderately progressive, depending on how you define the terms.
Opinion
Take action on affordable housing
On average, incomes have gone up faster than housing prices. But builders are producing disproportionately more capacity aimed at upper-income people than they are capacity for those of low and moderate incomes.
Opinion
What does tax fairness mean?
The reason people tend to respond favorably to proportionality as a standard for tax fairness is that it comports with their intuitions and experience.
Opinion
The Right-of-Center Constitutional Divide
A new book documents the debate among conservatives and libertarians over "judicial activism" and "judicial restraint."
Opinion
Walters Finds Cities Need Free-Market Atmosphere To Thrive
Cities decline when governments fail to protect property rights.
Opinion
Don’t Let Technicality Block Eugenics Compensation
It would be a shame — not to mention shabby and inexplicably petty — to deny the clear intent of the state’s eugenics program through an overly rigid interpretation of the compensation statute.
News
Friday Interview: Coolidge Shrank Government While Economy Grew
RALEIGH — As Americans continue to struggle with a sluggish economy, policymakers could learn useful lessons from a president who served in office more than 80 years ago. That’s the view of Amity Shlaes, director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Center, nationally syndicated columnist, and author of three New York Times best-sellers, including a biography of the 30th American president, Calvin Coolidge. Shlaes outlined Coolidge’s successful record for a recent John Locke Foundation Headliner event. She also discussed Coolidge during an interview with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
