The Conservatarian Manifesto: Should Libertarians and Conservatives Unite?
Q&A with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke.
Economics
Does Camille Paglia Have Any Hope for Our Modern Society?
The Cultural Critic Discusses Sexuality, Race, Gender, Feminism, and Hillary Clinton
New York Creates Massive Cigarette Black Market, Wants Virginia to Fix It
Because lowering taxes to reduce the incentive for smuggling is out of the question
Arguments for Military Sequestration for Conservatives
Arguments strong enough for a conservative, but made for everyone.
California Officials in the Dark About Black Markets
State needs regulatory reform, not armies of new inspectors
Water in California: Too Scarce, or Just Underpriced?
When it comes to rationing, give markets a chance.
A Win for School Choice: Charters Are Coming to Alabama
The State Will Be the 44th to Allow Charters
Here Comes Ethereum, an Information Technology Dreamed Up By a Wunderkind 19-Year-Old That Could One Day Transform Law, Finance, and Civil Society
Can Ethereum help eliminate corruption and bureaucracy in the developing world?
The GOP's Budgetary Shenanigans Discourage Necessary Pentagon Reform
The Department of Defense will continue to avoid hard choices if the war hawks prevail and gut spending caps.
Matt Welch: 'Every single GOP strategist under the age of 40' Might Be Unacceptably Libertarian
What the Liz Mair firing tells us about Scott Walker, GOP politics, and libertarianism
AirBnb Fights Crummy Laws and Crummy Attitudes
Why can't our politics and culture handle expedited exchanges of services and goods for money?
Guantanamo Detainee Becomes Best-Selling Author, Condemns Torture from Prison Cell
Mohamedou Slahi is still incarcerated even though a federal judge ordered his release in 2010.
Reform Conservatism: Just Another Name For Big Government Activism?
The movement's vision raises troubling questions that NRO's Ramesh Ponnuru wants to avoid
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the Rubio-Lee Tax Reform Proposal
It's a hodge-podge of pro-growth and budget-busting populist measures
Shikha Dalmia on the Rubio-Lee Tax Reform Plan
It's conservative social engineering atop pro-growth reforms
Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them?
Joel Kotkin dispels some of the popular myths of stadium projects.
Bill De Blasio's Affordable Housing Shakedown
The latest economic nonsense from the mayor of New York City.
Surprise: Cops Write More Tickets When Their Employers Get a Big Cut of the Cash
When it pays to crack down on Mickey Mouse offenses
Rubio-Lee's Problematic Tax Plan and the Coming Reformocon Class Warfare
A response to NRO's Ramesh Ponnuru
Mistaking Peak Prices for "Peak Everything"
Economic Super-cycles and Falling Commodity Prices
The United States of Corporate Welfare
Which company got the most targeted tax breaks, subsidies, and grants in the state where you live?
Why the Supremes Need to Scrap Obamacare's Federal Exchange Subsidy
The court's job is to enforce the law as written, not fix it
Scott Walker Flip-Flops in Favor of Federal Ethanol Mandate
Wisconsin governor, no stranger to corporate welfare, sings a new tune in front of Iowa farmers
Republicans Poised to Rubber-Stamp Another Debt Ceiling Increase
This is what you get with GOP control of Congress
The Apple Watch Will Make the Wrists of the Super Rich Look A Lot More Like Yours and Mine
The new watch from Cupertino will help reduce income inequality in the way that really matters.
"That's It, House of Cards. You Lost Me."
A show that was once darkly great has descended into prosaic moralism. God save us from fictional pols who are serious about jobs programs.
Could Automation Be Labor Unions' Death Knell?
Automation needn't be scary for workers, but for traditional unions, the robot future may hold a different fate.
Fresh Out of Bankruptcy, City Announces Multimillion-Dollar Housing Project
Stockton has apparently learned nothing from its embarrassing financial boondoggle.
The Blockchain: A Supercomputer for Reality
"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."
House Passes Clean DHS Funding Bill: Republicans Divide Themselves Instead of Democrats
They passed a clean bill with no poison pills against the Obama executive order
Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
For now humans make sub-par robots and robots make sub-par humans.
Warren Buffett's Economic Contradictions
The famous investor has an opportunistic relationship with big government.
