NC 250
All the voices
When you consider the coming of the American Revolution to the colony of North Carolina 250 years ago, you might be tempted to take for granted the remarkable circumstances that…
Czech Republic
country in Central Europe
Liberty
Historian Wood touts value of America as ‘creedal’ nation
Noted historian Gordon Wood explains the value of America’s unique circumstances as a nation. There has been some talk recently that we aren’t and shouldn’t be a creedal nation—that beliefs…
Liberty
Russian Warfare Raises New Concerns
Laura Kelly writes for The Hill about problems posed by Russia’s latest military actions. Russia’s increasing use of hybrid and gray-zone attacks against European countries is posing a major challenge…
Elections & Public Integrity
One Way to Follow Europe’s Lead: Enact Voter ID
John Lott writes for the Federalist about an inconvenient fact most voter ID critics choose to ignore. The Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, has compiled a database on…
Liberty
Czechs Finally Cash Check From Velvet Revolution
Michael Kahn and Robert Muller report good news for Reuters about one Eastern European country. Czech voters evicted the communists from parliament on Saturday for the first time since the…
Liberty
Poles vs. Eurocrats
Michael Brendan Dougherty reports for National Review Online on the problems Poland faces for refusing to adhere to dictates from Brussels. Ryszard Legutko, a Polish political philosopher and member of…
Education
Libertarian Czechs and higher ed
Anthony Hennen writes for the Martin Center about his recent Central European educational experience. For the past year, I was enrolled in a small graduate-level Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)…
Liberty
Lost amid the furor: Trump’s actual policy toward Russia
Elliot Kaufman sets the scandal aside for a moment and devotes a National Review Online column to the Trump administration’s actual treatment of foreign policy regarding Russia. Trump’s comments might…
Liberty
A valuable lesson from Eastern Europe
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online contends that people in Eastern Europe are sending an important message to the rest of the continent. The European Union announced this week…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
North Carolina’s economy on the world stage, 2015
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, looking at how North Carolina’s GDP compares on the world stage if NC — and the other U.S. states — were independent…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Lessons Americans can learn from Europe
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute admits in a National Review Online column that the United States can learn some valuable public policy lessons from Europe. For example, we could…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
U.S. schools are not efficient
Courtesy of Education Week: The U.S. ranks 19th out of 30 countries in the outcomes it gets from its investments in education, according to “The Efficiency Index: Which education systems deliver…