Topic: Art and Culture

Art and Culture, Books, Policy, Taxation

Thomas Sowell, Social Justice Fallacies

– October 3, 2023

“We might agree that ‘equal chances for all’ would be desirable. But that in no way guarantees that we have either the knowledge or the power required to make that goal attainable.” ~Gary M. Galles

Art and Culture, Books, Property Rights, Regulation

An Insider Untangles the Causes of the Financial Crisis in American Cities

– October 1, 2023

“Balancing budgets without reassessing what municipal governments should or should not do, and the long-term benefits and costs of their activities is insufficient.” ~Jason Sorens & Robertas Bakula

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Economic Trends, Property Rights, Regulation

Why is Baby Formula Kept Under Lock and Key?

– September 30, 2023

“Patent restrictions, a deliberate oligopoly, protectionist tariffs, and the highest inflation in four decades have resulted in an extremely expensive product at the end of a frangible production process and supply chain.” ~Peter C. Earle

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, History, Policy

Reaching Across the Aisle for the Bill of Rights: Learning from a Political Odd Couple

– September 29, 2023

“If Americans want to expand and guarantee protections for free speech, they can gain inspiration from the contributions of Republican Alfred Landon and Socialist Norman Thomas.” ~David Beito

Art and Culture, Crisis, Economic Education, Education

Weighing Whether the Standard Scale Makes Sense

– September 27, 2023

“Largely thoughtless adoption of a grading scale inherited from primary school can increase the emphasis on rote instead of reason at the university level.” ~Gary M. Galles

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Economic Growth, History

Eyes, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Rebutting Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’

– September 27, 2023

“We are wealthier now, not because we earn more but because we trade less of our time for goods. The real ‘superabundance’ comes not from ample money or wealth but ample leisure time.” ~David Gillette and Lauren Frazier

Art and Culture, Education, History, Policy

Freedom of Choice in Education: the Origins of a Slogan

– September 16, 2023

“The Virginia Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, linked arms with segregationist attorney John S. Battle, Jr. to attack the tuition grants.” ~Phillip Magness

Art and Culture, Education, Leadership

I’m Tired of Being Presumed to Be an Uncivilized Brute

– September 15, 2023

“The prevailing assumption, it seems, is that, but for these ‘training’ sessions, campuses would be overrun with blackface-wearing homophobes who routinely trade grades for sex.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, Books, Media

Orwell Exposed the Cowardice of Journalists and Intellectuals

– September 15, 2023

“Orwell warned, ‘It is the literary and scientific intelligentsia, the very people who ought to be the guardians of liberty, who are beginning to despise it.’” ~Barry Brownstein

Art and Culture, Crisis, Education, Government

Child Speech Issues Are at Historic Highs in the United Kingdom, a New Report Found—and We All Know Why

– September 12, 2023

“Widespread speech development issues are just one of the countless unintended consequences of turning individual decisions over to government bureaucrats.” ~ Jon Miltimore

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, Policy, Regulation

Respectfully Disagreeing With George Will on the Drug War

– September 9, 2023

“As long as the police are charged with enforcing drug prohibitions, they simply cannot be held accountable.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Art and Culture, Economic Trends, Free Markets, Media

In Defense of Cash Grabs

– August 30, 2023

“It doesn’t have to make sense to the outside observer, because ‘the system’ is not something a single mind designed but the unintended consequence of innumerable individual choices in response to (sometimes badly distorted) incentives.” ~ Art Carden