Frédéric Bastiat's "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" framework reveals how tech policy often overlooks hidden costs and unintended consequences.

American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, included $10 billion to compensate farmers for low prices that year, which farm interest groups claimed were financially catastrophic. However, ...

On April 2, 2025, the Trump administration announced new “reciprocal tariffs” on imports from most trading partners, imposing a baseline 10 percent tariff on all countries, with higher rates for those ...

The most striking thing you can say about Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel laureate in literature who died Sunday at 89, is that he was a great and exemplary Spaniard. It’s a compliment ...

What if the new Cold War with China turns hot? Just asking questions. China’s rise, decline, or potential for conflict is often clouded by propaganda and oversimplification. This episode of ...

You might think Russian President Vladimir Putin would be eager to reach a peace deal in Ukraine. The casualties of the war he started have reached an estimated 700,000 Russian soldiers killed ...

Two devoted Utah parents experienced the unthinkable in 2022: They lost their 14-year-old son—a warm, football-loving boy—to suicide. In the painful days that followed, as they searched for ...

If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the Vietnam War. The details will matter, but my back ...

George Santayana, the Spanish philosopher, famously wrote that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Evidently, President Trump does not remember Liz Truss’s fundamental ...

It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted.In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the ...