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The Growth of the World’s Middle Class May Be the Greatest Story of Our Age 0
- August 30, 2018
A woman who woke up from a thirty-year coma in 2018 would be forgiven if she looked around and came to believe our world is falling apart. Cable news and social media are a steady drumbeat of negativity. There is a sense the world is not right. Russian collusion. Xenophobia. Antifa. Unite the Right. Stormy
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Undermining the Independence of the Fed is a Terrible Idea 0
- Economics
- August 30, 2018
President Trump is known for expressing his views openly, without mincing his words. He has shown in many occasions that he doesn’t care about political correctness, an attribute that has allowed him to gain the support of millions of Americans. But being politically incorrect isn’t always a virtue, especially when it implies making unreasonable statements
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Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?0
- Culture
- August 30, 2018
A British aristocrat has daughters but no sons, thus his title and estate must pass to a distant male relative. It’s the classic plot device in many famous stories – ranging from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the TV show Downton Abbey. And it’s still the law of the land in Great Britain, but
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Why High Voter Participation is Overrated 0
- Politics
- August 30, 2018
Elections in free and open societies are often judged on voter participation rates. Pundits and scholars point to cases of poor voter turnout to support claims that our democracy is slowly decaying. This view is flawed. Voters are often uninformed, and higher voter turnout would do nothing to address this problem. Voters are regular
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The Ideology of Statue Smashing 0
- August 29, 2018
Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without ammunition for his gun—and facing northward—apparently
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Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.0
- Politics
- August 29, 2018
This past weekend, a competitor at a video game competition in Jacksonville, Florida, allegedly opened fire on fellow gamers, killing two and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms. And once
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