August 2025 ISSUE

Taxing the Rich: It’s Complicated

By Jordan Ragusa

After months of debate, and substantial changes along the way, this summer Congress successfully enacted a landmark package of tax and spending cuts, a key component of Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Trump's "big beautiful bill" (HR 1) will reduce taxes by around $4...

F.A Hayek: Education Is an Obligation, Not a Right

By Michael T. Kane

Friedrich A. Hayek Is there a right to education? Even in today's polarized political environment in the United States, the overwhelming majority of citizens think there is such a right, and many hold that it applies through the completion of college.1 Every one of t...

The Cost of Building Progress

By Matt Zwolinski

Book Review of: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman,1; and Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.2 Vera Coking and the Cost of Progress In 1961, Vera Coking and her husband purchased a...

Medical Practice Without Consent

By Arnold Kling

While informed consent and respect for autonomy govern how health care practitioners interact with their patients, this new ethos is absent when it comes to the government asserting authority over adults' health decisions. The government dictates what kinds of healt...

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