Ivy League Law Schools and the Slow Death of the Meritocracy
In the name of "equity," the two most prestigious law schools in the country are changing the rules of admission and more.
In the name of "equity," the two most prestigious law schools in the country are changing the rules of admission and more.
President Biden's call for more protectionism isn't aimed improving the US economy. Instead, it is about creating a war-footing autarky.
In the name of "fighting racism," a number of writers and pundits are making social relationships between people of different races and ethnic groups more contentious.
Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself.
Canadian political, academic, and media elites "worry" that democracy in that country may be under attack. Actually, democracy works all too well there.
Neo-Calvinist economic thought claims that prices and private property cause scarcity. However, they provide no methodology for their claims.
In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets.
It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role.
Murray Rothbard was no fan of John Stuart Mill's philosophy and neither is Philip Kitcher. However, there is a huge divide in how Rothbard and Kitcher view Mill.
One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the ordinal value scale. Augustine articulated the idea more than a thousand years before Carl Menger wrote his pathbreaking Principles of Economics.