For decades, the position of university trustee was largely a public honorific. This is changing. As Republican governors recognize that their public colleges are financially mismanaged ...

When policy analysts argue that Ukraine should stop fighting because it cannot realistically hope to repel Russia and reclaim its occupied territories, they often implicitly or explicitly reference ...

The most striking thing you can say about Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel laureate in literature who died Sunday at 89, is that he was a great and exemplary Spaniard. It’s a compliment ...

American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, included $10 billion to compensate farmers for low prices that year, which farm interest groups claimed were financially catastrophic. However, ...

Frédéric Bastiat's "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" framework reveals how tech policy often overlooks hidden costs and unintended consequences.

On April 2, 2025, the Trump administration announced new “reciprocal tariffs” on imports from most trading partners, imposing a baseline 10 percent tariff on all countries, with higher rates for those ...

Over the past several months, commentators have referred to tariffs as a consumption tax. There is a certain intuition behind this; however, there's an important difference—tariffs apply to capital ...

Welcome to the new and improved Law Talk podcast, featuring host Charles C.W. Cooke! He joins legal heavyweights Richard Epstein and John Yoo for yet another spirited discussion of the latest ...

Two devoted Utah parents experienced the unthinkable in 2022: They lost their 14-year-old son—a warm, football-loving boy—to suicide. In the painful days that followed, as they searched for ...

What if the new Cold War with China turns hot? Just asking questions. China’s rise, decline, or potential for conflict is often clouded by propaganda and oversimplification. This episode of ...