So much confusion would be avoided if we reminded ourselves now and again that economics began not as a search for order but as a search for the explanation of the order that was too obvious to miss.
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The most famous sentence in Adam Smith's 1776 treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, appears in Book I, Chapter 2: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their...
As a libertarian commentator who’s spent years dissecting the bloated machinery of the federal government, I’ve watched with a mix of fascination and fury as the executive branch assumes powers that the Constitution explicitly reserved for Congress. The recent Supreme...
The ground is moving under American politics, and the fault line runs straight through U.S. foreign policy. We unpack how the Israel–Gaza war turned into a domestic litmus test that hardens the left and the right while squeezing the center into brittle talking points....
