Chris Edwards President Trump’s policy actions are causing concerns that he may push the economy into recession. An Associated Press news piece led with, “With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it.” Trump’s tariff wars could indeed tank the ...
Walter Olson Lawyers in a free society must not be subjected to official punishment in retaliation for representing causes adverse to those in power. Nor should authorities apply coercive pressure to get them to brand as wrongdoers colleagues whom no court or bar authority has found to have committed misconduct. Nor should they come under coercive pressure to represent clients and ...
Erec Smith Since my first immersion into academia in graduate school, I’ve noticed a systemic “fight the power” attitude in the humanities, especially English studies, which includes my field of rhetoric and composition. The unquestioned assumption was that the world needed saving, and we were the ones to do it. What makes this different from the typical heroism and elitism ...
Clark Packard Washington’s international economic policies have increasingly turned inward over the last decade, prompting trading partners to look elsewhere for further economic integration. As the ever-erratic Trump administration threatens and implements new tariff measures on exceedingly weak grounds—even in the face of falling equities markets and increasing inflation expectations—US trading partners will increasingly reassess the value of pursuing new free ...
Thomas A. Berry President Trump signed an executive order on March 20 directing the secretary of education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education.” My colleague Neal McCluskey has listed the “top five reasons to end the Department of Education.” In this post I’ll expand on Neal’s first point: the department is unconstitutional. ...
Colleen Hroncich “We had kids.” For Nathaniel Pullman, the answer to the question, “Why did you start a school?” is as simple as that. He and his wife Joy attended Hillsdale College. “While we were there, we fell in love with the liberal arts and classical education and all that. And we knew we wanted to give that gift to ...
Neal McCluskey The US Department of Education is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. Here are five major reasons it should be: It’s unconstitutional: Education is nowhere among the specific, enumerated powers given to the federal government. That means the feds have no authority to govern in education. Even the big-government administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew that. In 1943, the US Constitution ...
Colleen Hroncich Try as I might, I’ve never been able to get into March Madness. The closest I came was when I had a March baby in 2006, and there wasn’t much else to watch on the hospital TV. So when a Cato colleague invited everyone to fill in a bracket—with only bragging rights on the line, no money—I had ...
Mustafa Akyol The Times of Israel, the largest English-language Israeli news source, published an interview with me on my new book, The Islamic Moses. Penned by Zack Rothbart, the interview also shares a short review of the book and my approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under a fitting title, “This Muslim Scholar Wants to Revive the ‘Judeo-Islamic Tradition,’ Starting with ...
Mike Fox In 2017, under the cover of darkness, Trina Martin and her family endured a terrifying ordeal when an FBI SWAT team detonated a flashbang in their Atlanta home, jolting the young family to their feet. Agents quickly realized they were at the wrong address and abruptly left, leaving the home in shambles, the family’s inner peace shattered by ...