The United States doesn’t run an old-style foreign empire. But the U.S. government operates an”experimental empire” when foreign military operations open the door to testing large-scale “nation-building” projects. Quotes because such projects never actually...
What if giant offshore oil platforms created more long-term value as marine habitats than from pumping oil from deep under the sea? Consider the case of oil platforms off the coast of California. A...
Mistake happen and foreign policy goals sometimes collide. Two U.S. policies currently colliding are support and protection of the Kurds in northern Iraq, and support for a unified Iraq. In his WSJ opinion article...
Federal electronic surveillance of financial transactions are part of a large-scale effort to ensnare drug dealers and terrorists. But lots of everyday people get caught up in IRS and NSA webs as well. Megan...
Economists research social order and the ways order emerges to coordinate the everyday production and exchange of goods and services between people, families, and communities. This conversation on social justice is recommended for students...
In The Economist‘s October 18, 2014 “Yes, prime minister” article, Stoa debaters will find an interesting federal electronic surveillance policy. A problem in India and other countries is monitoring government workers who may or...
Hernando de Soto’s October 10, 2014 Wall Street Journal essay is titled: “The Capitalist Cure for Terrorism: Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The U.S. needs to promote economic empowerment.”...
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy recently posted, and I shared, this Frederic Bastiat quote on Facebook. Lincoln-Douglas debaters researching the values of freedom and equity in the realm of economics may have heard the...
Now streaming from Free to Choose TV: Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring. From the FreetoChoose.tv webpage describing the video: The program shows that “The Arab Spring” was less a political event than it...
National Geographic features a short video on “The World’s Largest Open-Ocean Fish Farm”: Open Blue’s operations off the coast of Panama (May, 2014): A five minute CNN 2012 segment on Open Blue below (from...
