Michael Beckley writes for Foreign Affairs about a major factor driving today’s geopolitics. For the first time in centuries, no country is rising fast enough to overturn the global balance.…
Charles Murray dissects Ross Douthat‘s latest tome for the Claremont Review of Books. “Complaining about decadence is, almost by definition, a luxury good,” Ross Douthat observes in his new book,…
Rich Karlgaard of Forbes interviews technology prophet George Gilder about the long-term outlook for technology innovation. Q: Is technology progress accelerating or decelerating at the level of society? Gilder: It’s…
Fixing Obamacare. Improving the federal tax code. Coping with economic stagnation. George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen touched on all these topics and more during a question-and-answer session with the…
Those who remember Peter Coclanis‘ 2009 presentation to the John Locke Foundation on Russia’s long-term challenges are unlikely to be surprised by Carol Matlack’s report from the latest issue of…
The biggest part of the explanation for our economic stagnation is the decline in economic freedom. The US has fallen steadily in Fraser Institute’s index and we now rank 17th.…
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux has read commentary from pundits who yearn for the “good old days” of the 1950s, when income tax rates and unionization rates were much…
In case you need any more reasons to believe that the latest economic news is less than stellar, consider Matthew Klein’s recent observations for Bloomberg. Remember above all else this…
Feeling good about the new year? Global economist David Malpass offers an antidote in his latest Forbes magazine column. Central banks have become the world’s biggest speculators. The Fed in…
Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai recently talked with Paul Conway of Generation Opportunity about the sobering situation faced by the Millennials. Kokai: Why has this situation come to pass for…
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson devotes his latest Newsweek column to Adam “Invisible Hand” Smith’s description of an 18th-century economic problem we might recognize today. [M]uch of the developed world, including…
In today’s Wall Street Journal, one Hannes Swoboda, a member of the European Parliament from Austria, argues that Europe Can Spend Its Way to Growth. He believes that what the…