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December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…in which agency officials modify laws without the hassle of having to pass legislation. Traditionally, this involves convening a broad cross-section of representatives to hash out a workable compromise. Because…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…hundreds of thousands of locations across the U.S. It’s useful to consider how pot legalization compares with the situation in 1933, when the 21st Amendment abolished Prohibition of beer, wine and liquor…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…critics? No one disputes the evidence that Kearney (pretty cursorily) reviews showing that across a large variety of outcomes, in hundreds of studies, children who grow up with a single…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
In the agonized debates over how it can possibly be that Donald Trump has such a strong chance of being returned to the White House in 2024, it’s important to stress the…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…to be married, to be fathers and to live with their children. Because the data is cross-sectional, we obviously cannot say for sure that their normative orientation has caused these family behaviors….
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…is a good example: Frohnen asserts that the COVID-19 “lockdowns” were a gross infringement on liberty and commerce by government, a view that is, at a minimum, debatable. Here’s my recollection of events. When…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished; Robert Moses’s Cross-Bronx…
October 23, 2023
Spatial Spillovers and the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Pandemic-Era Federal Aid for State and Local Governments
…as opposed to spillovers across state lines. These findings point to an important role for variations in fiscal policy transmission mechanisms, namely that cross-state spillovers are less likely to be…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…modern U.S. government, having been negligible in the pre-New Deal era. In FY1930, for example, total grant-in-aid outlays were 0.109 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), whereas in FY2018 grant-in-aid…
September 26, 2023
Voter Suppression, New York Style
…(he eventually switched to Independent and finally, after leaving office, back to Democrat in 2018). New York is one of only seven states with a completely “closed” primary system. Republicans cannot cross…