27 May U.S. Economic Freedom Attracts Immigrants Who Support U.S. Institutions
Empirical studies show immigration does not harm and may even strengthen some institutions. Read more at Discourse. Read the Full Article here: >Mercatus Center...
Empirical studies show immigration does not harm and may even strengthen some institutions. Read more at Discourse. Read the Full Article here: >Mercatus Center...
Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and supposed lack of economic mobility.------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/2mw4JfN...
Memorial Day is about remembering the men and women who gave their lives for our freedom. But it’s also about renewal. We lost those we loved in the defense of liberty, the great American cause of liberty. That’s what Hillsdale College stands for, but that’s...
Recorded May 25, 2021Does elite thinking about the Black experience in America, as expressed via the teaching of critical race theory and the 1619 Project, benefit the descendants of slavery? Glenn Loury, a Hoover Institution distinguished visiting fellow and Brown University economist who writes frequently...
There’s an old saying among economists, demographers, actuaries and sociologists: “Demographics is destiny.” If that’s true, and it certainly appears to be, America could be in very big trouble. Back in 1970, leftist Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich warned in his sensationalist book, “The Population Bomb,” that...
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley has just published Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, the definitive account of the life of Hoover senior fellow Thomas Sowell. In this wide-ranging interview, Peter Robinson and Riley discuss the events and people that helped Sowell become one...
“It’s like we created another industry in our state. The amount of money is staggering,” Andrew Schaufele, director of Maryland’s Bureau of Revenue Estimates, happily declared last week. The Biden stimulus plan is deluging governments across America with hundreds of billions of dollars of extra...
Amid the waves of populism and protectionism sweeping across the American Right, capitalism has become a favorite target of many prominent conservatives, blamed for the decline of religion, the demise of the family, and the erosion of civil society. Whether the critiques come from politicians like...
Louis XIV (the Fourteenth) reigned over France for 72 years, from 1643 to 1715. Calling himself ‘The Sun King,’ he ruled with absolute authority over the most powerful country in Europe. As symbol of his dominance, he built the immense Palace of Versailles, home to...
There is one aspect of human progress that we don’t consider or appreciate: the switch that humans made from being merely a series of generations to becoming a civilization. As Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy pointed out, there are those who...