Bureaucracy and Regulation

There's really no need to do legal gymnastics about religious freedom. A simple respect for property rights solves the problem of forced baking of gay-wedding cakes.

Even the hard sciences are now expected to adjust reality itself to suit the demands of politicized university departments.

Government loves to set up "public-private partnerships"  for the benefit of both government and certain favored businesses.

Some special interest groups don't want customers to even have the option of buying other products.

The first thing to remember is that monetary chaos is not primarily “international” at all. It exists basically within each nation.

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, even changed the definition of assault rifle to fit pro-gun control talking points.

Once a government bureaucracy has been set up to do any job whatever, it will find endless excuses for expanding, prolonging, or perpetuating that job.

The median waiting time for patients in Canada from referral by a practitioner, to consultation with a specialist, to date of treatment, was 21.2 weeks in 2017.

If the "pay gap" narrative were true, "greedy" employers would hire more women to get the same work done at lower wages.

Noah Smith has written yet another "popular" column challenging established economics assumptions. But he's really only appealing to his reader's established biases.