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  • What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?

    What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?0

    In his new book Enlightenment Now and in his McLaughlin Lecture at the Cato Institute this week, Steven Pinker made the point that we may fail to appreciate how much progress the world has made because the news is usually about bad and unusual things. For instance, he said, quoting Max Roser, if the media

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  • What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama?

    What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama?0

    Imagine if a right-wing version of Robert Mueller, backed by a properly pro-Trump legal team, had sent former President Barack Obama the same sort of questions that Mueller allegedly delivered this week to President Trump. The special counsel might dress them up in legalese, innuendo, and with perjury-trap IEDs, thereby casting suspicion with the mere

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  • What if it’s Bernie vs. Trump?

    What if it’s Bernie vs. Trump?0

    In yesterday’s New Hampshire primary, the two big winners were Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Both candidates are considered populists, though both are also quite distinct from each other in style and substance. Obviously. The next two states on the way to the endorsements are Nevada and South Carolina. In Nevada, the latest public polling

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  • What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?

    What If Grocery Stores Worked Like Public Schools?0

    One of the most important things to consider when buying a house is the quality of the grocery district. As the name implies, the grocery district determines which public grocery store you and your family get to use. District maps are drawn by the government to ensure each grocery store has an appropriate number of

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  • What If Coronavirus Had Been More Serious?

    What If Coronavirus Had Been More Serious?0

    Whatever may be the outcome of the Chinese coronavirus outbreak, it has most assuredly highlighted multiple weaknesses in U.S. policy on immigration and manufacturing. As alarmism and panic grow, whipped up in part by those hoping to damage the president in an election year, the virus – though certainly serious – appears much less likely to be as devastating

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  • What If Charity Replaced Taxation?

    What If Charity Replaced Taxation?0

    Health care. Education. Among others, these goods have been considered so important that most current governments make a huge effort to provide them to people with inadequate incomes. Surely, it would be crazy to deny how important these goods are. In a 2016 survey conducted by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) titled “The 2016 US

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