By Antony Mueller A ghastly phantom has descended upon America: the specter of anti-capitalism. Young people march behind the socialist bandwagon and some activists block free speech as members of a group called “Antifa”. This “anti-fascist” movement engages in militant…
By Logan Albright Sawyer Valentini is a woman with problems. She’s had to move halfway across the country to avoid a stalker, and now she never feels safe. Unsure of where to turn, she seeks out a therapist to whom…
By Richard Morrison Human Achievement Hour—to be observed tomorrow, March 24, between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm—is the Competitive Enterprise’s Institute’s annual celebration of innovation and progress. During this hour, people around the world pay tribute to the advancements that inventors and…
By Brittany Hunter Girl Scout Cookie season is upon us: the time of year that turns me into a cookie junkie. I scour my neighborhood for green-clad girls selling colorful boxes of delicious processed sugar. It’s been an entire year…
By James Walpole Saturday, your town was likely covered with people wearing green, playing questionably Celtic music, and eating corned beef and cabbage. It was St. Patrick’s Day, if you haven’t guessed. This holiday has become a huge deal for Americans.…
By Savannah Lindquist The 90th annual Oscars were held last week, and as usual, the ceremony served as the perfect opportunity for Hollywood's most elite to get together and stroke fragile egos. Given the recent explosion of sexual assault allegations…
By John Samples Cass Sunstein has been for some time a capable and influential critic of individual choice and limited government. Over the past decade, he has argued that the Internet is failing liberal democracy. Left to their own preferences, he…
By Isaac M. Morehouse Manned flight is impossible. Computers will never be smaller than a house. Space flight is “utter bilge.” The food pyramid. One doesn’t have to look far to find embarrassing, peer-reviewed, max-credentialed, decades-held-as-orthodoxy proclamations by the most respected…
By Kerry McDonald Today, students across America will join in a national school walkout day to memorialize the 17 people tragically killed in the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting and to advocate for stricter gun control laws. But what if they don’t…
By Trevor Burrus On Thursday, President Trump held a meeting to discuss how and whether violent video games affect gun violence, particularly school shootings. Before getting into the details of this claim, perhaps we should take a step back and…
By David Boaz In his new book Enlightenment Now and in his McLaughlin Lecture at the Cato Institute this week, Steven Pinker made the point that we may fail to appreciate how much progress the world has made because the news is usually about…
By Tim Worstall Given that it was just International Women’s Day, we should give some serious consideration to which socio-economic system is the most feminist, the most pro-women. The answer, of course, is the current dispensation, free-market capitalism larded with…
By Barry Brownstein Donald Trump surprised even his own advisors with his decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum “for a long period of time.” To be more accurate, as the professor Don Boudreaux puts it, “tariffs imposed…
By Isaac M. Morehouse Imagine a world in which all kids were sent to auto mechanic school for the first few decades of life. Some percentage of them, those destined for a future with cars and mechanical problems, would love…
By Jon Miltimore In 2017, the data website FiveThirtyEight declared that the U.S. had become more polarized on the issue of guns that at any time in the nation’s history. Because of the emotional nature of the debate, both gun control advocates and…
By Barry Brownstein It is fashionable to “prayer shame” those who offer “thoughts and prayers” as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver…
By Tyler Brandt What does a free society look like to you? Is it an anarcho-capitalist utopia where individuals are free to shoot fully-automatic AK-47s at their 1040 EZs in their private marijuana fields? Is it a harmonious society free…
By James Agresti In a New York Times column entitled “How to Reduce Shootings,” Nicholas Kristof writes, “It is true that guns are occasionally used to stop violence. But contrary to what the National Rifle Association suggests, this is rare.…
By Luis Pablo de la Horra Imagine you own a modest house in the countryside. You go there with your family on the weekends, fleeing the noisy and congested atmosphere of the city. Your husband and you are still paying…
By Anna-Marieta Moise I watched The 15:17 to Paris last weekend. The movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, describes the true story of a group of three friends who, while on a backpacking trip in Europe, stopped a gunman from partaking in…