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On my (endlessly expanding) “to-read” list is Nicholas Wade’s book The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released updated figures on household and individual income.  The news is quite positive: Real median…

During the late 1990s a scientific paper investigating the link between the MMR vaccine and Autism was published in the…

Many libertarians and classical liberals consider the 19th century in the West as the most liberal epoch in history. We…

I have a memory of reading, sometime in the 1980s, a story in a French magazine about the American border…

El Camino Real (ECR), State Highway 82, the main thoroughfare connecting San Jose with San Francisco, is sandwiched between Federal…

In the Christian Bible, there is a parable of two builders.  One built his house on stone and the other…

Can a zoning meeting help rush hour traffic? According to Alain Bertaud, urban building regulations can indeed have a major…

Cleveland-Cliffs Chief Executive Lourenco Goncalves’s invocation of “unfairly traded steel” shows, on the contrarymany reasons why free trade is an…

Some 500 economists work for the Federal Reserve System. This is probably more than the entire dismal science faculty at…