December 18, 2016

Spreading the News on the State of Economic Freedom

The Fraser Institute has released its 12th edition of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA), which ranks and compares the levels of economic freedom across North America and within the U.S., Canada, and Mexico by measuring taxation, regu...

June 9, 2016

What NATO Is For

The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw will complete the transatlantic alliance's transformation back to what it was built for: deterring Moscow. The reason for NATO's return to its old mission is Russia's return to its old ways.  The...

December 22, 2015

The Retreat of Economic Freedom Continues

The self-styled "land of the free" is not as free as it once was – or as we in the United States think of ourselves. But don't take my word for it.  The U.S. ranks 16th in the Fraser Institute's latest Economic Freedom...

November 6, 2015

Economic Freedom and the Building Blocks of Prosperity and Stability

For almost 20 years, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World report has highlighted the many benefits of economic freedom: more prosperity, faster and more sustained economic growth, higher income levels, faster reduction in povert...

August 30, 2015

The Hard Work of Defending Civilization

By now, everyone knows about the three American heroes -- two of them off-duty military personnel -- who foiled a terrorist attack on a packed Amsterdam-to-Paris train. Armed with an AK-47, a handgun, nine magazines of ammunition and a box cutter, th...

July 19, 2015

A Regime that Cannot Be Trusted

President Obama is trumpeting a deal hammered out by U.S., European, Russian, and Iranian diplomats aimed at halting Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon. But before we usher in yet another era of peace in our time, let’s take a moment...

July 10, 2015

NATO Needs to Invest in the Common Defense

“If the Russians sense a window of opportunity, they will use it to their advantage,” warns Lt. Gen. Riho Terras, who commands Estonia’s military. “We must make sure there’s no room for miscalculation.” Regrettably...

June 15, 2015

In Defense of Missile Defense

U.S. sailors are arriving in Romania to flip the switch on a new missile-defense facility, the first of two missile-defense sites scheduled to come online in Eastern Europe in the coming years. One might expect advocates of missile defense to se...

May 16, 2015

Confused at Camp David

The president’s Camp David Summit with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar) was supposed to reassure some of America’s most important partners in the Middle East that Washington is ...

March 7, 2015

Cyber-Liberty Depends on Cyber-Security

My colleagues at the Fraser Institute have just published a report examining the issue of cyber-security from an underappreciated but crucial perspective, namely, the importance of cyber-security to liberty. We all know the Internet was designed n...

December 17, 2014

The Economic Benefits of Common Sense

Common sense is something of a misnomer, since common sense is not all that common. After all, common sense tells us that lower taxes, smaller government and flexible labor markets create an environment that encourages economic growth. The Fraser Ins...

August 20, 2014

Economic Freedom and a Healthier Middle East

The violent storms triggered by the Arab Spring continue to batter the Middle East. As regimes fall, wars rage, and nations fracture, is there any reason for hope? A new Fraser Institute study -- Institutions and Economic, Political and Civil Liberty...

May 17, 2013

A Care-less Foreign Policy

The Middle East is on fire. More than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's brutal civil war. Chemical weapons are being used against civilians. Scud missiles are raining down onto population centers. Jordan is drowning in a tidal wave of war ref...

May 4, 2013

The Gosnell Case Strikes a Nerve

The trial of Kermit Gosnell -- the Philadelphia man accused of murdering a female patient and several babies who were "accidentally" born during abortion procedures -- has struck a nerve in a numbed America. Gosnell's crimes were uncovered quite by...