Is Education a Commodity?
Besides blistering heat, continued conflict in the Middle East, and World Cup controversy (even the US is getting into it), summer 2026 has brought spirited discourse on higher-education social media (yes, it exists).
Medicare is Socialist, and It Costs Too Much
The recent lurch to the left in Democratic primaries has raised the issue of extending Medicare to all Americans. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has weighed in on this issue. As is often the case, Krugman demonstrates detailed knowledge of individual facts concerning the issue at hand, yet manages to arrive at false conclusions.
The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
Support for taxing wealth rather than income has surged in American political discourse. Progressive lawmakers have floated federal wealth tax proposals for years, and the idea has now migrated to the state level in dramatic fashion.
Bessent’s Former Mentor Druckenmiller Slams Treasury Bond Buyback Plan
“Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose,” Druckenmiller wrote.
Who Knew Genocide Could Be So Expensive?
“The debt is real. The murderous destruction of Gaza, and now southern Lebanon, is real, and the costs to maintain that destruction and rebuild as an Israeli paradise, is unimaginable.”
One Bad Week
It took around two hundred years for US government debt to reach one trillion dollars. By contrast, in less than half a year a trillion was added to bring the debt total to the 40 trillion dollars it reached last week. According to the Peterson Foundation, US government debt is on a path to reach 50 trillion dollars within the next six years.
Despite promising to reduce government spending in all three of his presidential campaigns, President Trump, with the assistance of congressional Republicans and Democrats, has continued to grow the government debt.
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
Harvard University Press (1967) 2017, xxxvi + 396 pages
The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality
What Made the American Revolution Unique?
The Declaration of Independence—as a bold act of secession—can be understood as one of the earliest major challenges to modern centralized sovereign authority within the emerging nation-state system. Understanding the Hobbesian nation-state is crucial to fully appreciating the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
