The Reassuring Lies of 9/11 Cinema
Movie depictions of September 11th tend to offer a comfort we don’t deserve.
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Incentives and Price Gouging
Does price gouging create incentives to increase supply? Sure, but that doesn’t mean that children won’t die unnecessarily.
The Limits of Liberalism at Harvard
Harvard’s faculty are sincerely committed to progressive values… until it comes to their own institution.
We Love Our Prizewinning Immigrants
America already loves certain kinds of immigrants. But the immigration debate isn’t about Nobel laureates.
Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is?
Greg Mankiw thinks Hamilton scalpers are fantastic. Of course he does. He’s rich.
The ISIS Hysteria Industry
How has a group with such little actual military power created such overblown global paranoia?
Some Troublesome Questions for Liberals on Borders
We might want to be careful about arguments like “immigration is good for the economy” and “these are jobs Americans won’t do.”
Suicide and the American Dream
More and more of us are killing ourselves. Is it the exploding of our deferred dreams?