Colleen Hroncich “The more that I, as a parent, learned about Charlotte Mason principles, the more I realized that this woman was way ahead of her time,” says Andy Zawacki, Head of School at Arborbrook Christian Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Arborbrook was founded in 2005 by four homeschooling families who wanted a Charlotte Mason-based education for their own children ...
Marc Joffe In recent posts, I have looked at costly light rail projects in Austin and Minneapolis whose sponsors are seeking federal funding. Not to be outdone, Los Angeles has its own high-cost LRT extension in the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) grant pipeline. A change of administration is a great time to reevaluate these projects because they usually don’t pencil ...
Joshua Shifrinson Should seeking to prioritize threats to US national security disqualify officials from leading policy positions? The campaign underway to prevent former Assistant Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby from gaining a senior position in the Trump administration certainly suggests so. Colby made his name in the first Trump administration working to reorient US defense policy toward competition with China, an effort ...
Clark Packard Earlier this week, the Cato Institute published Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths about the Global Economy and its Fundamental Humanity, a book I edited with Scott Lincicome. Over the past several years, globalization has faced renewed interest—and criticism—from politicians and pundits across the ideological spectrum. Containing 25 original essays from several writers, including Deirdre N. McCloskey, James Bacchus, ...
Mustafa Akyol Once in a while a new book in religious studies comes out with a bold thesis, challenging old assumptions and raising some eyebrows. The Islamic Secular, a thick, dense, and elaborate monograph by Sherman A. Jackson, distinguished professor of religion at the University of Southern California, is one such book that deserves attention—by both Muslims and others who ...
Andrew Gillen You can’t go long reading about higher education before coming across a lament about cuts in state funding for higher education, often called state disinvestment. There’s just one problem—as documented in a new Cato briefing paper, states have been increasing funding over the past few decades, not cutting it. The figure below shows inflation-adjusted state funding per student ...
David J. Bier President-elect Trump is promising to slash both legal and illegal immigration during his second term in office. He also wants to deport millions of immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as well as those who have come legally in recent years (through a lawful process known as parole). In this post, I review the data on ...
Nicholas Anthony After President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing the government to research and develop central bank digital currency (CBDC), nearly every agency responded with public reports. The one outlier was the Department of Justice (DOJ), which opted to withhold its legislative analysis from the public eye. I’ve had a Freedom of Information Act request pending for two ...
Adam N. Michel The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and permanent investment expensing. To do this within the constraints of the reconciliation budget process, Congress will also need to cut spending and find additional tax offsets. The ...
David J. Bier Just before the election, the Manhattan Institute (MI) released a report titled “Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants.” MI claims that the recent surge in immigration under President Biden will cost the federal government $1.15 trillion over the lifetimes of these new immigrants and that “mass deportations would significantly reduce the national debt.” Expect this analysis to be ...