Jeffrey Degner writes that we cannot fix families through state intervention.

Recently, the Independent Institute published a new collection of essays on relatively obscure economists. Both professionals and lay people alike will undoubtedly find that one of the pleasures of reading Unsung Heroes of the Market: The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know is in discovering how many important thinkers have quietly shaped modern economics without ever becoming household names.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson recently dismissed concerns about wealthy residents leaving Washington over higher taxes with a simple “bye.” The remark was meant as confidence. It revealed something else—one of the most persistent errors behind progressive tax policy: the assumption that productive people are interchangeable, that capital is captive, and that wealth will continue flowing into government coffers no matter how it is treated.

The military consequences of the Iran War have precedence in the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, in which an inferior number of English archers defeated a much superior number of French armored knights. Its implications reverberated for centuries. Heavily armored French knights became bogged down in mud and were slaughtered in great numbers.

In January 2025, a lawsuit was filed by the NAACP against the Governor of Alabama and members of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, seeking to injunct state legislation banning diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theories.

The lawsuit opens with a preliminary statement that,

Should the Federal Constitution be ratified, there would be ‘no checks, no real balances,’ thundered Patrick Henry. Instead, the country would live under a ‘powerful and mighty empire.’

On the eve of the federal convention, and following its adjournment in September of 1787, the Anti-Federalists made the case that the Constitution makers in Philadelphia had exceeded the mandate they were given to amend the Articles of Confederation, and nothing more.

She is another right-leaning president, following Colombia’s new president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, elected last month.