Imagine sitting down to take a school exam in the late 19th century — no multiple-choice bubbles to fill in, no standardized test booklets, just long, challenging questions covering a…
Ghouls, gourds, and giggles will abound tonight — but whose idea was it to have a celebration on such a chilly night? What we now know as the celebration of…
Restricting cell phone use in American schools is a growing phenomenon, as concerns about student focus, mental health, and classroom behavior continue to rise. More states across the country are…
Tailwinds and headwinds When I fly back to Britain, I know early on whether I will approach Heathrow by skipping along the south coasts of Ireland and Wales from the…
Three years ago I wrote two articles for Econlib marking the centenary of Irish independence. Here they are to mark St. Patrick’s Day At the Irish Free State’s birth in…
An excerpt from Bill Maher’s new book, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You shared by The Free Press caught my attention recently. In it, Maher references a study of…
I’ve previously written how Minnesota performance on national tests is the worst in 30 years, but what does that mean for the impacted students’ futures? Lower skills, and therefore future…
The true, seldom told story of overwhelming sacrifice and heroism.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!
The United States is one of the freest countries in the world. But in 2020 that freedom came under threat. In fact, according to Cato’s Human Freedom Index 2022 update,…
While all of the attention of late has been on apprehensions of migrants at the southern border, the northern border made the news last week. The U.S. Border Patrol issued…
Why America’s political infrastructure must not be undone.
The Biden Administration understands that high taxes drive out businesses into low taxed regions, hence the push for a global minimum corporate tax rate.
Three years ago, I wrote: In 1988, The Economist magazine ran an article on Ireland titled ‘The poorest of the rich’. The title was well deserved. … But, when The Economist next came to…
The Irish government knew that one way to get people to consume fewer plastic bags was to tax them.
While many American students have returned to in-person classroom instruction, many of their peers have not. Continued school closures have been driven by different factors—from fear that reopened schools will…
Despite being framed as a public health intervention, school closures are unlikely to be an effective countermeasure to COVID-19. And the consequences of continued school closures are high: long-term health,…
How far would you go to avoid inheritance tax?
Big firms can bear the costs of complying with regulations much more easily than small firms.
With all the talk about banning plastic straws in the name of saving the oceans, very little of the discussion focuses on where the bulk of ocean plastic actually comes…
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Another shocking election…
Liberals hate to lose. Instead they blame the Russians or worse, they blame the voters.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten a basic lesson: when goods cross borders, armies won’t.
Sen. Sanders took a laptop costing a few hundred dollars and produced Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, for which he was paid $795,000.