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‘Film production is a stack of gigs’

Michael Brown explains how film subsidies just don’t create jobs

Jessica Wyeth | November 26, 2025

‘Leadership of these unions has lost their way’

Gene Hamilton discusses shifting The Overton Window back toward the interests of American workers

Jessica Wyeth | November 14, 2025

‘A lot of libertarianism feels like political science fiction’

Brian Doherty talks about shifting the Overton Window in politics, statecraft, and comic books

Jessica Wyeth | October 31, 2025

‘We are failing in public education’

Kevin Rinke discusses literacy, leadership and lessons from politics

Jessica Wyeth | October 17, 2025

‘These programs do not deliver what they say on the label’

Richard Morrison and John Mozena on ESG and the potential to roll back corporate welfare

Jessica Wyeth | October 3, 2025

‘What constitutes separation?’

Glenn Moots discusses the evolution of church and state in America

Jessica Wyeth | September 19, 2025

‘Everyone already agrees that tariffs are bad, and everyone agrees that we should do something about national debt’

Dave Hebert on why many voters believe economists have conned the American people

Jessica Wyeth | September 5, 2025

‘It’s unlikely they’ll be able to stop tidal waves of cigarettes’

Todd Nesbit and Mike LaFaive break down their data on rising taxes and cigarette smuggling

Jessica Wyeth | August 22, 2025

‘When there’s a threat of failure, people innovate’

Richard Vedder discusses his book on creative destruction in higher education

Jessica Wyeth | August 8, 2025

‘A functioning democracy requires healthy dissent’

Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley urge Americans to embrace civil disagreement, not avoid it

Jessica Wyeth | July 25, 2025

‘I couldn’t stand by’

Sandra Hernden and Steve Delie tell the story of one woman’s fight to recover her first amendment rights

Jessica Wyeth | July 11, 2025

‘Politicians are myopic’

Patrick Wright on unconstitutional state spending that favors certain district projects over others

Jessica Wyeth | June 27, 2025

‘Get off the floor, wipe your eyes, log off that computer and start homeschooling’

Bernita Bradley on launching microschools in Detroit

James M. Hohman | June 13, 2025

‘Work never gets boring’

FIRE’s Ryne Weiss on protecting freedom of speech on campus

James M. Hohman | May 30, 2025

‘A loss for the American economy’

Jeffrey Schwab discusses filing major lawsuit on the imposition of tariffs

Jessica Wyeth | May 16, 2025

‘Welcome to the wild and wonderful’

Jessi Troyan on universal licensing and breaking barriers to work in West Virginia

Jessica Wyeth | May 2, 2025

‘Darn good policy’

George Leef on Right to Work and Rethinking Higher Education

Jessica Wyeth | April 18, 2025

‘The public can’t stop it’

Daniel Crane on navigating AI innovation and regulation

Jessica Wyeth | April 4, 2025

‘The government never goes out of business’

State Rep. Jordan Teuscher on how Utah banned public sector unionization

Jessica Wyeth | March 21, 2025

‘The battle is not over’

Dr. Keli’i Akina on passing the largest tax cut in Hawaii’s state history

Jessica Wyeth | March 7, 2025

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