Science is in trouble. The symptoms include the bickering and vacillation over COVID, and continuing hysteria about climate change. Science also has internal problems—replicability, for example, the ability to repeat...

Reprinted from the Independent Institute At least since Thomas Carlyle’s infamous put-down of economics as the “dismal science” (for economists having the temerity to oppose slavery), it has been popular to...

In my previous column I shared some of my (many) responses to Nancy MacLean’s appallingly inaccurate Democracy in Chains, a book about my late Nobel-laureate colleague James Buchanan. I promised...

In 2005, the comedian Stephen Colbert (re?)introduced the word “truthiness”  to the English speaking world. And what, pray tell, is that? How about “a truthful or seemingly truthful quality that...

New orders for durable goods increased 0.7 percent in May, following a 0.4 percent gain in April, the 11th increase in the last 13 months. Total durable-goods orders are up...

Reprinted from Law & Liberty Images of devastated parents burying their little sons and daughters, senselessly murdered in their classrooms, have stunned the nation. How could a teenager raised in...

As Hayek once argued, the history of the world can be depicted as a history of inflation. After all, inflation affects everything from the cost of an egg to the...

President Joe Biden is calling for a three-month gas tax holiday to lower the price at the pump. Interestingly, former President Obama opposed a gas tax holiday when energy prices...

Phone conversations with sources are revealing that inflation is starting to create cracks in the unity of the G7 against Russia for the summit of G7 nations in Bavaria (June...

During the winter of 2021, journalist Virginia Heffernan sheltered from COVID in her upstate New York getaway. After a heavy snow, she was astonished when her Trump-supporting neighbor plowed her...