In the third chapter of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, economist Adam Smith observed the following: "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce...
In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless, of course, federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. The...
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kiev from the United States and its European allies following...
“I wear two hats, one representing the people of Israel, the other representing the Jewish people around the world." These are the words I was instructed to write into more remarks than I can remember over my eight and a half years working as the Strategic Outreach...
The Washington Naval Treaty is usually treated, when mentioned at all by historians, as an unmitigated failure, but—although he says this in the most pianissimo tones—I think John Jordan’s Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets,...
In a recent interview with Nathan Goodman of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Professor Michael Clemens, a GMU specialist in migration economics, put forth "a strange and striking fact about the world economy." A lower-skilled person's location in the...
With Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve beginning a cutting cycle, it is worth revisiting why the Feds manipulation of interest rates is not a harmless (if misguided) technocratic tool for attempting to “fine-tune” the economy, but is instead a source of deep...
Under a democratic state, your money can be likened to a piece of bread thrown into a pond where fish from both the left and right nibble away. Your money and rights are fought over and consumed in ways you did not consent to. In modern governmental systems, the tax...
