The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of the merchants of his time. He regarded them as among the most responsible for how “the mercantile system,” as Smith called it, accorded legal privileges to politically connected producers over...
What's up, everybody? This is Brandon Copeland, aka Professor Copeland. You are now tuned into another episode of Cope'ing With Money.Recently, I've been doing some research and I found that apartment searches tend to hit a low between November and April. Well, this happens for...
As a black African who is acutely aware of the global discrimination against black people, I’m very appreciative of the focus on improving the lives of black people. Living in fear of a biased criminal justice system is a real concern that we face in...
The unexpected and broad-based protests erupting in Cuba are a poignant reminder of the lost liberty experienced by people under authoritarian regimes. The opposite could be said for the movie In The Heights, the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical. If the dissent on...
Prompted by my nine-year-old son’s emerging interest in photography, I have been introduced to the life and legacy of Ansel Adams, the renowned 20th-century American landscape photographer. As a curious and energetic child, with an innate need to move and act, schooling was not a...
If I were paid every time I heard someone criticize someone’s political ideology based on a tired cliche with little intellectual backing, I’d quit my job and retire. We all understand what I’m talking about; Progressives are reduced to lazy, power-hungry cry babies who like...
The American appetite for war and conflict has greatly deteriorated for good reason. For many citizens, the United States has been at war for most of their lives; those born in the 21st century will have never lived through a time...
I don’t know how many protests, solidarity movements, refugees, human rights alerts, economic collapses, and purges are going to get this message through everyone’s heads, Communism is a terrible system of governance. In fact, at this point, we should be consistent. Any government that does...
It is hard to sit by and watch your economy being strangled. Ibram X. Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist” is all the rage now, but the Biden administration and its progressive hangers-on are providing a master class on “How to Be an Anticapitalist”...
Are billionaires human dragons? That was the hot take of one person on Twitter: And look how many people agreed with her! 43 thousand retweets and 150 thousand likes when this screenshot was taken. So what does that make Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? Is the richest man...