Academic Freedom

Assumption University President Greg Weiner at NYT:   Colleges and universities are right to invoke academic freedom as an essential bulwark against government interference. But it is difficult not to greet this opportunistic defense of academic freedom cynically...

Failed State Update: Prisoners Who Murder

 Summer Lin at LAT: The family of a a woman who was strangled to death last year during a conjugal visit with her husband at a Northern California prison has called for reforms after a second woman was killed in a similar manner. Tania Thomas, 47, was killed in July...

Reagan on Protecting Secrets

Remarks at Groundbreaking Ceremonies for an Addition to the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters Complex, May 24, 1984: An intelligence agency cannot operate effectively unless its necessary secrets are maintained even in this, the most open and free country on...

The Lesson of the Pencil

New tariffs will increase the price of US-made cars because their parts come from other countries.  It’s not a new phenomenon, as Milton Friedman once explained with a pencil.  

World War Trade

Jason Douglas and Tom Fairless at WSJ: Barriers to open trade are rising across the world at a pace unseen in decades, a cascade of protectionism that harks back to the isolationist fervor that swept the globe in the 1930s and worsened the Great Depression. It isn’t...

Reagan on Denmark

President Reagan, Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark, September 10, 1985 Denmark is an old friend and an ally in NATO and an active trading partner; ties between our two countries run long and deep. Denmark recognized the...

Reagan on Trade with Canada

President Reagan’s Remarks on Signing the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988. September 28, 1988: This legislation reflects overwhelming support for the elimination of barriers to trade between the United States and Canada. It...

Attack on the Inland Empire

Many people in the Santa Clarita Valley Inland Empire have long commutes. Charging people for the miles they drive? Absolutely not. This would be another costly blow to people who live where they can afford and have no choice but to drive long distances to work. This...