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  • Yes, Parents Are Capable of Choosing How Their Children Should Be Educated

    Yes, Parents Are Capable of Choosing How Their Children Should Be Educated0

    At the heart of debates around education freedom and school choice is the subtle but sinister sentiment that parents can’t be trusted. They are too busy, too poor, or too ignorant to make the right decisions for their kids, and others know better how to raise and educate children. Never mind that parents have successfully

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  • Don’t Feel Bad About Using the Self Checkout

    Don’t Feel Bad About Using the Self Checkout0

    Have you’ve seen a meme exhorting you not to use self-checkout because it impoverishes workers who are replaced by unfeeling scanners? There is no harm in making that choice. But if we remember our lessons from Frederic Bastiat, we can see why the rationale behind the campaign is absurd.  Why should we stop with the

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  • After AOC’s Toilet Hysteria, Real Abuse at the Border Is Ignored

    After AOC’s Toilet Hysteria, Real Abuse at the Border Is Ignored0

    The immigration problem today demands a serious debate about how to remedy the situation for the good of the country and its citizens. What we get instead are misleading images and scandalous, politically-motivated allegations. Not surprisingly, the problems continue to worsen.  The rhetoric boiled over recently when Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) visited a border detention

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  • Three Cures for a Society Obsessed With Offenses

    Three Cures for a Society Obsessed With Offenses0

    I’m a positive type of person. I like to smooth things over, to think the best of others. So it startled me to realize that, several months ago, I was doing the exact thing I prided myself on not doing: jumping to conclusions and thinking the worst of another person.    Unfortunately, many fall into

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  • Support for $15 Minimum Wage Plummets When Americans Are Told Its Economic Impact

    Support for $15 Minimum Wage Plummets When Americans Are Told Its Economic Impact0

    Minimum wage laws, I’ve noted, are popular with the public. This no doubt explains why House Democrats passed a bill Thursday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Yet the minimum wage’s apparent popularity might be political pyrite (fool’s gold). A newly published Business Insider survey found that support for the minimum wage wilts when Americans—both Republicans

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  • Brexit: Where Are We?

    Brexit: Where Are We?0

    The Future of Brexit By 2014, the UKIP was starting to compete with the Conservative Party’s voting base. To deal with this, David Cameron, the Prime Minister at that time, decided to hold a referendum on June 23rd, 2016. By doing this, Cameron hoped to demonstrate that the notion of Brexit was unpopular, hence destroying

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