Education

Wealthy Hollywood types, being relentless and cynical social climbers, figured out years ago that college is mostly about social status and certification.

Besides national defense, no government-provided service enjoys as much exemption from scrutiny as the provision and subsidization of primary public education.

Lena Wang on the state of higher education in America.

Even in the heyday of liberalism only a few people had a full grasp of the functioning of the market economy. 

The economist’s lot is to study a field in which, almost more than any other, human folly displays itself. 

Since public schools are funded through tax dollars, the schools don't really care if their safety measures are done in a way that treats students with the sort of respect paying customers would likely receive.

Whether Christian or Jewish, public schools and their allies have long attempted to crush private religious schools. 

Gary Schlarbaum is delighted to match your gift now through December 9. 

Dr. Daniel Lahoud has single-handedly introduced hundreds of Venezuelan students to the ideas of Mises and Hayek. 

As Mises put it "The development of a profession of economists is an offshoot of interventionism."