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October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance earlier this month highlighted a point of bipartisan consensus in a heated election contest. After clashing over topics ranging from health care…
October 18, 2024
Harris and Trump Are Equally Silent on the Expanding US Debt
…output for the first time since the US military build-up in the second world war. In 1946, the ratio of debt to annual GDP was 106.1 per cent. The CBO…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…such demands. It’s time for the city’s elected officials to acknowledge that our perennial “housing crisis” is actually the result of generations of such action plans — from NYCHA to rent stabilization…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…to Chinese manufacturing using protectionist measures. To take one example of many, check out this headline and subhead on a New York Times article from this spring: “How China Pulled So Far Ahead…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…children are experiencing longer periods of time living with abusive and neglectful families. These effects—unlike, say, the crime and disorder caused by defunding the police—are largely hidden from public view….
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
Over the past half-century, virtually all aspects of social life have deteriorated in America. We spend less time with fewer friends, form fewer families and have turned away from organized civic life and religious institutions. We trust…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
…customize their career paths. It’s time for that to change. The answer is to expand opportunities for students, including those in traditional public schools, while allowing the very best and…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…and Hanson-style instruments and ending their time period in 2007. They find job losses from Chinese import competition totaling 671,000 alongside export-driven job gains of 1.2 million. I argue that…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…had already banned legacy admissions since 1998.) There’s a lot to like about what California just did. Research by Harvard University’s Raj Chetty has found that a legacy applicant is four times…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…work or earn enough to owe federal income taxes in the first place. The biggest individual winners? Parents who don’t work at all, who for the first time received full…