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Pam Bondi is Wrong: Hate Speech Is Free Speech

Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi went on The Katie Miller Show and claimed that the First Amendment does not…

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The Big Government War on Airline Competition

Joe Biden is out of office, but the ghost of his economic agenda still lingers. Its echoes can be heard…

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Why the Old Left–Right Divide No Longer Works

A century ago, Michael Oakeshott, Britain’s great skeptic of politics, a grand project, diagnosed a sickness that now afflicts every…

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Psychology, Security, and the Subtle Surrender of Freedom

What Tocqueville teaches us was echoed in Sir Roger Scruton, the torchbearer of conservative thought in England in the last…

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Powell Pivots, Fed Cuts Rates as Jobs Market Weakens

The Federal Reserve lowered its federal funds rate target range by 25 basis points, to 4.00–4.25 percent, on Wednesday. Before…

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The Austin Renaissance? Even School Choice Is Bigger in Texas

The Texas frontier has once again been won, this time by the school choice movement. It wasn’t easy. Anti-school-choice lobbyists…

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Miran Follows a Long Tradition of Political Appointees at the Fed

The Senate confirmed Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board on Monday. Critics of Miran’s nomination argued that his prior…

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How Do Communities Form? Exploring ‘Social Philosophers’

The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet is a tour de force through human history and philosophy. He grounds the unifying…

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Adam Smith on Duty and ‘the Great Division’ of the Human Spirit

Ichiro Suzuki was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer. With his nearly unmatched bat control, Ichiro had…

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Commercial Mortgage Delinquencies Now Surpass 2008 Financial Crisis Peak

In November 2024, US commercial mortgage delinquencies spiked to 10.4 percent, a level just below the 10.7 percent peak during…

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