P oliticians are not supposed to meddle with prices. Even though much of politics is about whether voters can afford things – especially in an era of recurring inflationary shocks – ever since the col...
03.27.2026 Theguardian.com and 3 sites
Politicians say they can “make the economy work better. ”I once believed they could. But years of reporting taught me that politicians’ attempts to “fix” the economy usually make things worse. Twenty ...
03.25.2026 Townhall.com and 9 sites
Friedrich Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, a classic book on economics for the ages. We would do well to understand his message, because it reads today less like a theory and more like a w...
03.28.2026 Townhall.com and 1 sitesGive liberalism credit. It takes a lot to bring together high-brow intellectuals of the postliberal right and the postmodern-progressive left. Yet they make common cause, if largely unbeknownst to the...
03.29.2026 Yahoo.com and 1 sites
A month or two ago, Sebastian Faulks, the writer, told me about a dinner party he’d attended with a number of people in their early 30s. They were well educated, well heeled, and in influential jobs: the future masters of the universe. Yet it became clear, he told me, that none of them were readers. One young man, indeed, told him flatly that though he could imagine finding time to read a chapter, he simply couldn’t contemplate reading a whole book. Picture poor old Faulks floored. Me too. Now w...
03.26.2026 Telegraph.co.uk
Sometimes, the U. S. Supreme Court will decide a big case and almost everybody will seem to take notice. Other times, however, the Court will decide a major case and practically nobody will seem to no...
03.26.2026 Ifttt.itbehere.com and 6 sites
Politicians say they can “make the economy work better. ” I once believed they could. But years of reporting taught me that politicians’ attempts to “fix” the economy usually make things worse. Twenty...
03.27.2026 Tribtoday.com and 7 sites
BONITA SPRINGS, Florida—On a warm January evening in southwest Florida, sitting on a dais with six other candidates in front of a massive American flag, former U. S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn presented hi...
03.26.2026 Thedispatch.com and 1 sites
When law was sovereign All of us in the modern West grew up believing that we were living under “the rule of law. ” The truth, however, is that the rule of law – the sovereignty of law – ended a coupl...
03.28.2026 Beforeitsnews.com
If the social-justice argument provides the moral case for centralisation, the control argument provides its main technical excuse. The claim is simple: a complex, linked economy cannot work if its parts are left to talk among themselves. How can a p...
03.27.2026 Dtnext.in