What began as supposedly a free trade union has been turning into an authoritarian, interventionist nightmare. A recent speech by a top European Union commissioner shows the sad direction the…

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Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts uphold individualized justice, in the form…

Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are declaring Bidenomics to be a huge success, and predicting economic disaster if Trump is elected. It’s all further evidence of the pathetic, politicized state of…

Stephanie Kelton, the most visible promoter of MMT, is being derelict in her academic duties by not replying to Per Bylund’s critique of her theories in Quarterly Journal of Austrian…

David Inserra The Supreme Court decided the Murthy v. Missouri case by declaring that those suing the government lacked standing. I’ll let lawyers unpack what this means for standing in First…

Adam N. Michel In the first presidential debate of the 2024 cycle, former president Donald Trump is likely to talk up some version of his proposals to raise tariffs on…

Romina Boccia Few challenges loom as ominously as the exploding national debt. The US government has grown into an ever‐​swelling leviathan that’s increasingly oriented towards doling out cash and health…

Contrary to Milton Friedman’s thesis that the decline in the money supply caused the Great Depression, the real reason was the collapse of real savings, which was due to loose…

Will Duffield The government can’t command social media platforms to remove disfavored speech. But when does informal government speech notifying or suggesting cross the line into unconstitutional pressure or coercion?…