When Donald Trump reentered office in 2025, he inherited a strong economy partly fueled by the possibility of lower taxes on capital, fewer overbearing regulations, energy abundance, and the rise of AI. Instead of stewarding that prosperity and optimism, Trump…
President Trump’s motto is “Make America Great Again.” To achieve this, we should recall what made America great in the first place. Our Founding Fathers recognized that robust property rights — both tangible and intellectual — form the cornerstone of…
The most recent “Voices of Gen Z” study, a joint project of Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation, had both encouraging and concerning news. The encouraging news was this: Members of Gen Z (those born from 1997 to 2012)…
Europe’s business elite rarely ventures into the political arena. That changed when Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury giant LVMH and Europe’s wealthiest man, broke his silence at a Paris shareholder meeting. His sharp critique of the European Union’s handling of…
The United States is the world’s largest economy, in terms of GDP, with a recent value of $27.72 trillion. What explains American economic success? The answer is quite simple: free markets that transcend local, state, and national lines. As the…
Who reading this can recall when the Super Bowl was played in mid-January? How many can remember when the NFL’s championship game was called just that: The NFL Championship game? Stadiums are torn down, rules change, rosters are gutted, equipment…
The fate of President Donald Trump’s ambitious economic policy plans will be determined by the people he appoints to critical positions. With a debt of over $36 trillion (heading toward $59 trillion in 2035 by some estimates), inflation not resolved,…
Americans were justifiably shocked when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on a midtown Manhattan street last December. Perhaps more shocking was the reaction among those who rationalized the crime as a consequence of legitimate frustrations with skyrocketing healthcare costs,…
The Los Angeles inferno continues, as new fires continue to break out even after entire neighborhoods have been ravaged and thousands of people have been displaced. Every day the case builds for reintroducing “a culture of responsibility” to California. Shmuel Klatzkin wrote of…
