Imagine if this system were to be extrapolated to other fields. The present system for pharmaceutical drugs requires a doctor’s prescription as a precondition for their sale to members of the public. At first glance this seems like a reasonable plan. After all, most people simply lack the necessary information to determine whether they need […]
Union leaders claim that “extremists” politicized US schools. This is blatant revisionism. When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what issues were most important to them, education wasn’t even among the top dozen. But things have changed dramatically since then. Outlets ranging from The Washington Post, to ABC News, have identified education as a […]
The ghastly event happened 70 years ago today, and teaches an important and timeless lesson. Power kills. Absolute power kills too many to count. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spoke with personal authority on the subject when he famously said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” To write about any one or […]
According to many researchers, the learning styles theory is the biggest myth in education. Are you a visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetic learner? For millions of students, this question has become so familiar that they already have an answer ready to go. Some identify as visual learners, which means that, in theory, they learn best […]
The 1993 film Demolition Man saw some parts of our future clearly—and reminds us there are many shades of dystopia. I haven’t thought about the movie Demolition Man in a long time, but this changed recently when it was brought to my attention that the film is now nearly 30 years old. Made by filmmaker Marco […]
Transportation is essential to any economy. In war, each side tries to cripple the other’s economy by targeting and destroying its transportation infrastructure: ports, airfields, roads, bridges, railroads, rivers, and canals. The United States, however, like many countries, wrecks its own transportation systems—not with bombs but with laws and regulations. The American Henry George (1839-1897) once commented on this […]
The IRS would more than double its workforce under this legislation. Americans love their fast-food supersized. But supersizing the Internal Revenue Service? Probably not so popular. That’s evidently of little concern to a majority of Congress. Lawmakers are poised to pass a large tax-and-spending bill, which Biden is eager to sign, that would increase IRS […]
Karl Marx didn’t support the right of workers to bear arms because he saw it as an inalienable right. He supported gun rights because they were a means to an end. For just $10.77, people can go on Amazon and buy wall art of Ronald Reagan apparently defending the Second Amendment. “Under no pretext should arms and […]
To help passengers, airline regulations should be scrapped, not increased. If you’ve been anywhere near an airport in the last two years, you’ve probably gathered that things in the airline industry have changed. Delays and cancelations are causing more headaches than ever, baggage mishandling is up, unruly passenger cases are up…it’s really a mess. Unsurprisingly, flight complaints remain significantly higher than […]
Does Biden deserve credit or does the second law of demand explain our less painful trips to the pump? Anyone who has a car is breathing a sigh of relief this last week. After two years of increasing gas prices, we’ve finally had a significant fall in gas prices. Gas prices are still high at […]
This “energy miracle” in the Lone Star State has to be one of the most remarkable energy success stories in history. As a result of the impressive, “eye-popping,” and ongoing surges in Texas’s oil production over the last decade, the Lone Star State recently surpassed Canada’s oil output for the first time this year (except […]
The author of the article in question told FEE it was not a parody. UN Chronicle, the official magazine of the United Nations, recently deleted a 2008 article titled “The Benefits of World Hunger.” The article, which now leads to an “error page,” was written by George Kent, a now retired University of Hawaii political […]
Hannah Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann as “terribly and terrifyingly normal” took the world by surprise. Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its […]
Is the U.S. economy in recession? The answer is, paradoxically, both easier and more complicated than you might think. As expected the United States posted negative growth for the second consecutive quarter, according to government data released on Thursday. “Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second […]
Who Really Needs a Definition of Recession? Not business or households. It really only serves one interest. Social media is ablaze with a dispute over whether the US economy is in a recession. The debate was prompted by the White House’s statement on upcoming GDP data. The statement claims: While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of […]