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Visiting Berlin in 1983, its Wall was a stunning sight. All that effort, all that threatened violence, just to keep people from choosing to improve their lives. We tut-tutted about how sad it was for ...

Political pundits and politicians have spent days analyzing the 2026 midterms from every angle. But the real lesson is a simple principle that Vice President JD Vance already laid out: The Trump admin ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by concerns that the unchecked growth of AI could have negative consequences. Some of those making the most apocalyptic predictions ...

One of my most valuable mentors is someone you've probably never heard of, Chris Weber. Weber is an autodidactic genius. He's such a great investor that he's never had a real job. His education ...

Fathers are becoming better and nicer by the day. See the recent deaths of Susan St. James and Patrick Stewart for evidence. From Stewart's Washington Post obituary it's evident what a sad child ...

My great-grandmother, Lucy Conway Gordon Smith, was born during the Late Unpleasantness in 1862, and, as you can probably tell from her Gordon surname, she was a Presbyterian. Everyone knows that Pres ...

Too bad Kamala Harris didn't beat Donald Trump in 2024. Though Republicans will protest that Harris would have been much worse than Trump. Impossible. If you're doubtful, just imagine the ...

In 1989 The Economist described a Soviet bus factory whose workers took sledgehammers to newly manufactured trucks. The bus factory needed only the truck chassis, but government rules required the tru ...

If you love your iPhone, you passionately adore free trade. Absent the division of labor that the iPhone is a monument to, the supercomputers that sit in our pockets wouldn't exist. What's ...

In The Affluent Society (1958), John Kenneth Galbraith challenged the assumption that businesses merely satisfy independently determined consumer wants. Producers also create wants through advertising ...