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Is Our Children Learning? Apparently Not.

Plus, Sam Altman as ShamWow Guy, and more from this week…

The One Thing You Should Be Reading This Week, and Every Week

A brief departure from our standard Friday format…

Notes from an Inauguration

Or, the Canadian Girlfriend Theory of Executive Power

What Ted Lasso Can Teach Us About Panda Express

And more from this week…

How Trump Can Rebuild America

The Conservative Case for Reindustrialization

Is It Interesting to Say That AI Isn’t That Interesting?

I hope so, because that’s what I wrote about this week.

First, Assume the Can Opener Is Broken

And more from this week…

The H-1B Fight Is About So Much More

In which Vivek and Elon say the quiet part really loud

Cliff Asness Finds Common Cause with Compass on Coin-Flip Capitalism

And more from the past couple of weeks

What Economists Could Learn From George Costanza

My essay in today’s New York Times…

The Movie’s Not Called “It’s A Wonderful Life Of Economic Freedom”

And more from this week…

Trump Can Bend Biden’s Industrial Policy To Suit Him

America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy

Please Don’t Send Me, or Anyone, ChatGPT’s Policy Ideas

A useful lesson in AI capabilities, and the misunderstandings thereof

Hmm, Well, Yes, Expanding Government-Funded Addiction Treatment Does Count As GDP Growth

And more from this week…

Here’s How the Return of American Industry Will Actually Look

Feat. the one stupid party trick you need to amaze the economists in your life…

Life, Liberty, and the Over Adjusted to 38.5 Parlayed with the Money-Line

And more from this week…

Nice Conservative Blueprint, Who’s Gonna Build It?

How to fund a movement of, by, and for ordinary Americans

Don’t Think the Globalization Debate Is Over? Watch This Video.

And more from this week…

If the Affluence We Pursued Brought Us to This, of What Use Was the Affluence?

A quality-of-life debate at the American Enterprise Institute takes a surprising turn…

How the Flip Immigration Flip-Flops Flop

And more from this week…

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