Source: Reason
by Jared Dillian
“Increasing income taxes almost always results in less revenue and less economic activity.” (03/27/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/27/how-taxes-are-reshaping-where-americans-live-and-work/
Source: Town Hall
by Les Rubin
“Friedrich Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, a classic book on economics for the ages. We would do well to understand his message, because it reads today less like a theory and more like a warning. What Hayek described is unfolding right before our eyes, yet it is so gradual and insidious that few recognize it is happening. Hayek believed prosperity and freedom are inseparable. In [his book], he warned about what happens when government begins to control economic decision-making through central planning. The result, he argued, is the slow erosion of freedom. When societies abandon individualism and classical liberal economics, the power of the state expands and the liberty of the citizen contracts. Eventually, this evolves to government control.” (03/28/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/les-rubin/2026/03/28/we-are-on-the-road-to-serfdom-n2673569
Source: EconLog
by Henry Oliver
“Smith shows himself a great reader, not just of his great favorite Jonathan Swift, but of the other great English authors like Addison and Johnson. He recommended reading the novelist Samuel Richardson as well as Racine and Voltaire. Smith was a truly rounded humanist, a man who knew enough of life and books to write not just a great treatise but a work of significant pleasure.” (03/27/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-wealth-of-nations-a-classic-of-english-literature
Source: Independent Institute
by Caleb Petitt
“The Trump administration’s suspension of the Jones Act is well-reasoned; the Jones Act has kept oil prices in America higher than they would otherwise have been by increasing the cost of transporting oil. The Jones Act forces domestic shippers to use expensive ships with expensive crews, which drives up shipping costs beyond what a free market would bear. However, paying more for domestic shipping could easily be worth the cost if it made America more secure. Unfortunately, the Jones Act is a hindrance to American security.” (03/27/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/27/suspending-jones-act-iran/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“During Trump’s second term, Democrats have flipped 30 state legislative seats and ceded none.” (03/27/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/27/state-legislative-special-election-democratic-wins/
Source: Niskanen Center
by Daniel Wilf-Townsend
“Our civil justice institutions are about 100 years old, dating back to the progressive era and the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But the world has changed a lot since then. In particular, the number of transactions in society has exploded, as population growth, economic growth, and technological change have exponentially increased the activity in society that leads to disputes. Separately, alongside the rise in civil disputes, the cost of the time and attention of legally trained experts has skyrocketed, rising faster than inflation for generations.” (03/27/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-transaction-explosion-and-the-cost-of-judgment
Source: The Daily Economy
by Anthony Storer, James Hop, Patrick O’Keefe, & Timothy G Nash
“The forces propelling gold higher today extend beyond its safe-haven status. A mix of technological change and geopolitical restructuring is reshaping how investors view gold. The result is a powerful combination of structural demand and constrained supply. These conditions help explain gold’s strong performance and why many believe its appeal is far from over. Below are thirteen major forces shaping the modern gold market.” (03/27/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-gold-continues-to-buck-trends-and-outperform-stocks/
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“[W]e require no heroic assumptions to understand that free immigration is good. New people and different ways of doing and seeing things mix with the existing cultural elements to produce, on the whole, innovation and immense general benefits. (See the work of Julian Simon and Matt Ridley.) All we need is freedom, an expectation of self-responsibility, and no government interference. In those conditions, reality and capitalism teach and reward virtue.” (03/27/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-immigration-culture-and-albert
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“What should the American people, especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling Donald Trump and the crony Trumpsters who are wrecking our government and our economy? These former presidents should mobilize the citizenry from the grassroots to the Capitol and take on the unpopular Tyrant Trump. Having sworn to uphold the Constitution and ‘… take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,’ they should strongly uphold their patriotic duty to resist tyranny and save our Republic and our besieged democratic institutions, and stop the assault on our civil liberties and civil rights. Our former presidents all get along with each other. … [T]hey are living luxurious lives and are largely AWOL from connecting with the existing but overwhelmed civic opposition to Trump.” (03/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ex-presidents-cowards-trump
Source: Law & Liberty
by Aaron Alexander Zubia
“The Princess Casamassima reveals the inherent problems of the revolutionary mindset.” (03/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/henry-jamess-anti-revolutionary-novel/