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Thursday, May 20, 2021

America's Social Protection Gap and What to Do About It

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Around the world, liberal democracies take pride in the freedom and prosperity of their citizens. And not just prosperity for the prosperous...
Friday, April 2, 2021

What Does Vaccination Have To Do with Freedom?

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How did getting vaccinated for Covid-19 get mixed up with freedom? I was pondering that as I read a piece in The Hill about Trump’s recent ...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

The Best Opening for a New Third Party is the Liberal Center

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  Writing for the New York Times, Bret Stephens tells us   why the new party that 62 percent of Americans say we need must be a centrist o...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Carbon Pricing and its Green Critics

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Carbon pricing is firmly entrenched as the go-to climate policy for economists, yet many with training in other sciences and social sciences...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Economic and Personal Freedom: Test Driving Cato's Human Freedom Index

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December saw the release of the 2020 edition of the Human Freedom Index , published jointly by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute. ...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The Case Against Premature Fiscal Austerity

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  A new Congress has convened. Soon the battle of the budget will begin. On one side will be the advocates of stimulus, who think the econom...
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Saturday, January 2, 2021

Trust and Quality of Government in a Polarized Age

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Kevin Vallier’s new book, Trust in a Polarized Age , has a clear message: Trust matters. If we want to combat the increasing political pola...