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Keep the Case for Free Trade Simple
Trade isn’t complicated. People around the world work to produce things for one another — and protectionism makes that cooperation harder.
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Why Apartments in Tokyo Are So Much Cheaper Than in NYC
Tokyo houses millions more people than New York, with a surprisingly simple affordability formula: let people build more housing.
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Libertarianism’s Critics Bury Another Straw Man
Libertarianism doesn’t signal approval of vice, nor does free trade ignore struggling communities. Indifference is not the only alternative to coercion.
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Business Conditions Monthly July 2026
Consumers are still spending and businesses are still investing, but housing and hiring have faltered. Growth is uneven and increasingly dependent on a few capital-intensive sectors.
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Public Sector Unions Undermine Accountability
Research on schools, policing, and government spending is clear: public sector bargaining forces taxpayers to finance the erosion of their rights.
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What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Mahmood Mamdani’s research showed why people often don’t behave the way central planners wish they would. His son faces a similar test in New York.
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Elon Musk’s Paper Billions Are Vanishing
The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX’s IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-price wealth.
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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
A Canadian shop mailed me the hard-to-find part to save my wife’s old blender. How do prices help strangers cooperate on a scale no one can engineer?
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NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School
The Project 1619 journalist said parents should stick with struggling, segregated schools. Her daughter isn’t the only one who was cheated by that ideological choice.