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The year 1776 was the high watermark of the Enlightenment. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Both works were grounded in…
Megan McArdle devotes a New York Post column to the type of nationalism America needs now. “Nationalism” has become a dirty word in the modern era, having become inextricably associated…
Edoardo Campanella writes in Barron’s about dubious schemes designed to battle poverty in Europe. The poor don’t often decide elections in the advanced world, and yet they are being wooed…
Remember when climatologist Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute told CarolinaJournal.com that the “good ol’ USA” has led the way in the reduction of carbon emissions? Mark Perry of the…
Scott Powell explains at Investor’s Business Daily why repealing the Affordable Care Act remains a critical component of boosting economic growth. … [T]here is still a way forward. The legislative…
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…
Dan Hannan contends in a Washington Examiner column that the political left is “collapsing everywhere.” Here’s a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in…
Jon Hartley explains at National Review Online why Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is wrong about the impact of federal tax cuts. In Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Tim Kaine repeated…
What could be better for Brazil than the publicity tied to the recently concluded Olympic games? Getting the nation’s fiscal house in order, as described by Peter Millard in the…
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…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s approach toward the federal government’s mounting debt. With our national debt…
John Stossel explains at Human Events why he’s no fan of the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees. Trump’s a contender because he promises a trade war. That’s what gave us…