Like you, I try to get out once a day to keep clarity of mind, whether out for a walk or, even better, to experience something of commercial life out there, truncated as it might be. Businesses doing business, wealth being created despite every barrier,...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetArnold Kling is spot-on about the coronavirus relief bill. Stephen Miller asks, to excellent effect, what the growing number of coronavirus cases really means. Jeffrey Tucker sees coronavirus as ideology. Shikha Dalmia makes the case for cutting H-1B visa red tape. Jeff Jacoby understandably worries about the...
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, is moving up in the betting odds for getting the Democratic presidential nomination, even though he is not running. The reason is that binge-watching newshounds have noticed something about his comportment during this crisis. He seems just slightly struggling...
(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is this March 21st, 2020, tweet from Thomas Sowell: It is so easy to be wrong – and to persist in being wrong – when the costs of being wrong are paid by others. DBx: Indisputably true, both as a matter of logic and...
Are you teaching economics? How is the current pandemic influencing your teaching? Or how should it? We welcomed Steve Horwitz to offer his perspective. Here’s the result: And for those of you interested in Steve’s book recommendation, here you go. Howard Baetjer’s Free Our Markets. And here are links...
Recorded on March 25, 2020In this first of a new series of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson conversations done via webcam, Peter Robinson talks to John B. Taylor, the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics. They discuss the huge impact of the...
Reason's Science Correspondent, Ron Bailey, on flattening the curve without killing freedom.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...
President Abraham Lincoln issued an Executive Order known as the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in rebel territories during the Civil War. It would ultimately take an amendment to the Constitution to abolish all slavery at the end of the war. Learn more about...
College students around the world left campus this month, unsure when they would return and what daily life would look like until then. Forced to leave their friends and classmates behind and return to their childhood bedrooms, young people, who on average are less...
Can you hear the oinks of the pigs running toward the feeding trough now that Farmer Uncle Sam has rung the feeding bell? For several weeks politicians have been jockeying to up the ante with progressively higher bailout proposals: $850 billion, $1 trillion, $2 trillion....