from FEE

The Woke Salaryman believes taxes are important for a thriving society. The reality is quite the opposite.

“I believe that parents should have the choice as to where their children go to school,” said Jasmin Hoyt who in 1993 founded Great Oaks, a private school in Brooklyn with an annual tuition of $5,600.

In 2022, the Irish economy grew at an incredible rate of 12.2 percent, the fastest on the European continent—and more than 5x that of the United States.

There are strong reasons to make standard time permanent — or at least sleep on it.

Non-market allocations of resources are doomed to result in catastrophic waste and mismanagement, evidenced by a recent New York Times story exploring how ‘millions of acres of public lands aren’t really open to the public.’

Claire Hughes Johnson, a former VP at Google, recently wrote that she one skill that

The new Avatar movie has a lot going for it, but the environmental paradigm it promotes could be a lot more balanced.

There's two sources of "bigness" people don't consider.

Bad banks need consequences. Let them fail.

Toast's new Restaurant Trends report is out, and the findings are interesting.

More game theory lessons from HBO’s hit show, ‘Succession.’

Understanding the value of your time is incredibly important—especially to your future self.

The philosopher Spencer Heath believed that human society was slowly evolving by learning how to align our incentives to increase human flourishing. Today, his vision is being realized.

Alternative versions of the Kinder Surprise have been introduced in the US in recent years, but the original remains illegal to this day.

An interview with Viking Foundry owners Jordan and Carrie Eiler.

Unlike many Americans, North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is not blind to the miracles of capitalism. She’s seen hell up close.

Ask an Economist #9

On the anniversary of Stalin’s (bloody) state funeral, here are some quotes from Uncle Joe himself that might help readers see what kind of man he really was.

The president sits atop an executive branch octopus which has wrapped itself around seemingly every corner of American life.

A forgotten high school football game played 15 years ago in Texas reveals the power of encouragement.

Freedom needs fearless truth-tellers.

Even the FBI now concludes the Covid-19 pandemic likely stemmed from a lab incident in Wuhan, China. Here’s why that matters.

Proponents of tax increases argue that the top tax rate in the US and other countries used to be much higher in the past than is the case today and yet the economy still did fine. How much truth is there to this argument?

Nevada is an outlier with these licensing regulations that limit the supply of education options available to families and constrain the private education sector.

Section 230 has been the key to our free and open Internet. Eliminating it now would be a deeply dangerous move.

We’ve learned a lot about mask effectiveness. But have we learned anything about means and ends?

The Grimké sisters challenged a misconception that was widespread in their time and that persists today: that God is either silent on slavery or in support of it.

There are a lot of possibilities we often overlook.

Tranq is not an excuse to continue the failed, costly, and unjust policies of the Drug War.

A fitness trainer's advice for the body politic.

Rothbard lived his life and fought his battles with a rigor and cheerful demeanor that the liberty movement would do well to emulate.

A Manhattan Institute study confirms that K-12 schools are effectively indoctrinating students into radical — revolutionary, even — political ideologies.

Love becomes a demon when it becomes a god.

William Blackstone’s "Commentaries on the Laws of England" offers important clues about what Thomas Jefferson meant with the phrase immortalized in the Declaration of Independence.

Sowell has an amazing ability to communicate timeless truths succinctly.

The Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was later killed on assignment, likely for reporting the truth about the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Ukraine.

Aristophanes had seen enough of collectivism to recognize that it was destructive and often nonsensical, even when it was done “democratically.”

If Google is really a monopoly, why would investors be worried about a competitor developing a new product?

Turan Rush says that school itself has “prison vibes.”

More than a century after his death, Booker T. Washington’s eloquence still speaks to men and women of conscience.

“When I saw the change in my kids I said I want to be a part of that,” said Maria Castaneda.

The case for (limited) reparations can be found in a proper understanding of property rights.

Roughly $27 billion in food stamps was spent on junk food in 2022. But that’s hardly the only problem with this program.

Joe Biden knows the true history of segregation quite well, which makes his false claims that Georgia’s election law was ‘Jim Crow on steroids’ all the more egregious.

The Internal Revenue Service is a system beyond repair. It's time to seriously considering scrapping the agency.

Like the Great Helmsman’s mummy, the “late stage capitalism” cliché should be laid to rest. And so should Lorenz’s phone.

A big refund means a big loan to Uncle Sam.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Sy Hersh says a source told him the US government took down one of its own aerial devices by mistake.

When private entities conspire with government to silence opinion, we get the worst of two worlds: the brute force of the state combined with the technology and efficiency of free enterprise.

Government-created monopolies can charge astronomical prices, which is why companies and politicians fight so hard to preserve them.