October 3, 2024

Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

Donald Trump has accused Kamala Harris of leveraging her supposed black heritage (her father is Jamaican and her mother is Indian) for political gain. Trump himself has been accused of making race an issue in the campaign, a claim he flatly rejects. ...

November 16, 2023

A Day of Reckoning for America's Universities

On October 7, 2023 the words “never again” rang hollow for the first time since the Holocaust when 6 million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis. Employing a level of barbarism that should cause even the most fervent anti-Semite to re...

January 11, 2023

Crypto Education: The Student-Loan Forgiveness Program

Next month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Biden, President of U.S., v. Nebraska et al. This case, which was brought by six Republican States (Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina), challenges the constitutional...

February 4, 2022

Biden's Supreme Court Tradeoff

President Biden ignited a political firestorm last month when he announced that he would fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s resignation with a Black woman. This was reportedly the result of a deal (political quid...

February 1, 2022

The corporate gamble on wokeism

The wokeism bandwagon is now on full display in Corporate America as it attempts to convince customers that it is more concerned with social equity than the bottom line.  Skepticism is warranted. The rationality axiom states that economi...

December 3, 2021

A Vote of 'No Confidence' in the Biden Administration

On virtually every metric, Americans are worse off today than they were a year ago. The Biden Administration has failed at the primary function of government -- to protect its citizens from harm. This begs the question as to whether the president is ...

November 21, 2021

The Pandemic of Rampant Wokeism Strikes Academia

A deadly virus that threatens our way of life is spreading rapidly across the land.  It is not COVID-19, but wokeism and academia is its mothership.  Wokeism is the product of an educational system that has lost its way. ...

July 29, 2021

What Does Economics Have to Say About the COVID Vaccine?

The protracted debate over the government’s role in combatting the spread of the COVID virus has become one of the more divisive issues of our time. Those on the right argue that the decision to wear a mask or be vaccinated should be left entir...

July 17, 2021

How Our Leftist Government Gets Its Minimum Wage Hike without Legislation

The Biden administration has discovered a back door to raising the effective minimum wage.  Paying lucrative supplemental unemployment benefits, which is effectively subsidizing leisure, increases the opportunity cost of working and thereby...

February 12, 2021

Rethinking American Education

Public K-12 education in this country suffers from a lack of effective competition that prevents market forces from working the way they should. What would happen if there was school choice in America today? Parents who are dissatisfied with the educ...

January 10, 2021

Conceding Defeat to Fraud Is Not Patriotic

I. Introduction In the aftermath of the protests that devolved into deadly riots in Washington, D.C. and resulted in the breach of the Capitol building, there is a temptation to stand down and not question any further whether Joe Biden is the duly...

January 15, 2020

Iran and the Nobel Peace Prize Presidents

I. Introduction For the second time in 40 years, a Republican President was forced to clean up the mess left by his Democrat predecessor’s failures in Iran. The first time was when a group of Muslim “college students” overran the...

December 29, 2019

Morality and the Presidency

The recent op-ed in Christianity Today calling for the removal of President Trump from office because he is morally unfit to lead the country renews an age-old debate about morality and the presidency. In a perfect world, we would prefer th...

December 20, 2019

Profiles in Cowardice

In Profiles in Courage, the Democratic Party's apostle, John Kennedy, observed that the difference between a politician and a statesman is that a statesman is willing to "cross the aisle" for the good of the country.  The impe...

October 24, 2019

Harvard, Diversity, and the Courts

The federal district court has ruled that Harvard’s admissions practices, while “not perfect,” do not violate federal law. This does not mean that Harvard is not engaged in “discrimination,” only that any such discrimina...

July 27, 2019

The False Promise of the Minimum Wage Hike

I. Introduction Last week, the United States House of Representatives passed legislation raising the Federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. Contrary to what the Democrats would have you believe, this is less about compassion for low-skilled...

June 15, 2019

Innovation and Optimal Ignorance

 “Optimal ignorance” is the idea that “experts” can be so constrained by their own knowledge that it hinders their ability to innovate. That in fact, a somewhat incomplete knowledge of the discipline may enhance rather th...

May 8, 2019

University Shootings Will Only Get Worse. Here Is a Solution

Last week witnessed the final day of classes at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNCC).  It was also the last day of Riley Howell's life.  When a gunman entered his classroom, panic quickly ensued, and virtually eve...