The Government Scientific Agency Oxymoron
If the Covid policy crisis has done anything, it is to make clear that “government scientific agency” is as much...
Robert E. Wright
A Simple New Year’s Resolution
Let lovers of liberty resolve this New Year to turn against collectivist groupthink and return to the basic principles of...
A Bergeron Christmas
Last year, I had the temerity to ask Santa Claus for the gift of public policy sanity. He must have...
The Covid Squid Lottery Wire
The participation of the characters in Squid Game, a popular fictional Netflix series, is voluntary. Players return to the game...
The Unity of Knowledge
Weary I grow of people’s asking if this or that is “really” economics or history or evolutionary psychology or whatever....
Democracy Demands Transparency
Have you noticed that many Democrats today are not particularly democratic? Oh, they want everyone, and then some, to vote,...
Getting Real About Taxes
As AIER Research Director Phil Magness recently pointed out, a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains like that recently proposed...
What’s Become of the Overton Window?
The Overton window (OW), or window of discourse, is a heuristic device that centers on current public policy and portrays...
The Great Tax Gap Flap
The US Treasury claims that every year about $600 billion in taxes owed to the federal government, about 15 percent...
The General Welfare
In my 2021 Constitution Day post “And Secure the Blessings of Liberty,” a paean to the Preamble of the US...
Why Bother?
Our nation faces some strange issues right now, including huge numbers of unfilled jobs, empty shelves, and higher NON-COVID-RELATED deaths....
Socialist Darwinism
Occasionally, a human being of more than median understanding of the social world will say to me something like “Libertarianism...
