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Competition Based on Quality of Healthcare: Why Does Quality Rise in Free...
Lack of quality competition is in part the result of certain characteristics of healthcare quality. What we call core quality is not a variable at all. As I discuss in my recent book Priceless: Curing...
View ArticleCountry’s Largest Roman Catholic Education System Embraces “Entrepreneurial...
A private foundation will begin managing the country’s largest Roman Catholic education system on September 1. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will transfer management of 17 high schools and four...
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Obama’s 44th California Fundraiser
President Obama has brought new meaning to “Obama 44″. It used to refer to his number as president. This week, he made it the number of fundraisers he’s attended in California. Which will be surpassed...
View ArticleRegime Change Coming in the Republic of Georgia
Economic and political reforms have had mixed results in the former Soviet republics following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. One of the success stories is the Republic of Georgia. Elections...
View ArticlePrivatize Sesame Street!
Wow, are people still talking about Big Bird? Romney said in the domestic policy debate last week that he would cut federal funding to PBS. Obama’s supporters responded with a flurry of media...
View ArticleOnce More, with Feeling: Our System Is Not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism
I continue to encounter many discussions in which the author or speaker bemoans the economic order’s drift toward socialism or, in some cases, its actual existence as such. If this characterization...
View ArticleMarxist Ties of the Chicago Teachers Union Exposed
“What the CTU Strike Teaches Us about the Fight for a Better World” was a featured theme of last month’s Midwest Marxist Conference, held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism....
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The Seamy Side of the Military
What’s promised (above) is too often not what results (below) The U.S. military is increasingly putting a feminine face forward in its ads and PR (for example, the bright smiling faces flanking Mrs....
View ArticleGoodbye, Maggie
Margaret Thatcher’s death caught up with me in the worst of places: a speech in Argentina. What to do? Should I follow my conscience and say a few words in memory of her—and risk offending an audience...
View ArticleStudents: Break Free This Summer!
Join the Independent Institute this summer for its college seminars in Colorado Springs and Berkeley. These five-day programs feature lectures, readings, multimedia presentations, and group discussions...
View ArticleHappy May Day
It’s May Day—International Workers’ Day—a time for us to celebrate the workers of the world, who, as Marx told us, had nothing to lose but their chains and therefore would inevitably mount a worldwide...
View ArticleClassical Liberalism’s Impossible Dream
I can understand why someone might embrace classical liberalism. I did so myself more than forty years ago. People become classical liberals for two main reasons, which are interrelated: first, because...
View ArticleRobert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013)
Robert Fogel died a few days ago. He was a prominent figure in the academic economic history profession for five decades, virtually from the time he burst onto the scene with the publication of a...
View ArticleNot Even Achieving an Impossible Libertarian Dream Will Suffice
Libertarians dream of cutting back the bloated Leviathan under whose weight people now struggle simply to catch their breath—breathing freely being almost beyond imagination. A few of us dream of...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Flunks the Preschool Test: More Government Is Not the Answer
When releasing the “Economic Agenda for Women and Families,” Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that America has an early child care and education “crisis” that threatens our economy. Her solution...
View ArticleGovernment-Run Preschool Is a Dead End, Not a Lifeline
Greater economic equality requires the “lifeline” of more government-funded preschool for disadvantaged children, says Nobel Prize–winning economist James Heckman in his New York Times editorial last...
View ArticleWhen Extremism Is Seen as Moderate...
France’s National Front, the far-right organization that has become a symbol of the xenophobic, Euroskeptic, nationalist reaction against the prevailing problems in Europe, has sent ripples across the...
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More Money, Less Liberty, Impoverished Education
A new study from the Southern Education Foundation finds that half of all public school students now live in poverty. The poverty measure they use is eligibility for the federal free and reduced-price...
View ArticleNew Videos Slam Obamacare’s Lies
First, we have singers Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood mocking Obamacare at the Country Music Awards. As reported by Aaron Blake in the Washington Post, “Hey do you have that Obamacare?” Underwood...
View ArticleShocker: Common Core Is about Politics, Not Academic Standards
In what should be a surprise to no one, once we let Washington determine what schoolchildren should study in school, the curriculum is going to be politicized. It is already well publicized that the...
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