regulation

July 10, 2024

Why Overturning Chevron Didn’t Fix the Problem…Entirely

Every year, millions of American families with college students complete a government form known as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The application is administered by the U.S. Continue Reading...

January 11, 2024

Over-Regulation Is Strangling Panama—and the U.S.

Beginning in mid-October, Panamanian activists, led by the militant leftist labor union SUNTRACS, brought much of Panama to a standstill, blocking roads and filling Panama City with daily demonstrations against a copper-mining contract with Canadian firm First Quantum. Continue Reading...

July 19, 2022

Government regulation of the market is more to be feared than Amazon or Google

The popular view of the recent NBA Finals is that the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors competed for the title of best team. The nation’s best basketball players traded points, victories, and fouls on the way to the Warriors pulling off the final victory. Continue Reading...

August 26, 2021

How America’s ‘creative class’ learned to love conformity

In 2000, columnist David Brooks wrote Bobos in Paradise, hailing the dawn of a new phase in America’s longstanding story of meritocracy. The “bobos” were a peculiar breed — part bohemian, part bourgeoisie — blurring class divides in a way that would introduce a new form of enlightened, activist citizenship in a country with an otherwise ambivalent middle class. Continue Reading...

August 16, 2021

America’s meat industry needs more freedom, less federal control

In the early 17th century, Calvinist philosopher Johannes Althusius put a distinctly Christian spin on earlier concepts of political subsidiarity. Althusius visualized civil bodies as not parts of a whole, but critical and complete entities in themselves. Continue Reading...

January 21, 2021

Here are all the executive orders Joe Biden signed on his first day in office

Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden has already made history, not merely as the oldest president ever to hold office, but by signing an unprecedented number of executive orders on his first day in office. Continue Reading...

February 14, 2020

What Joaquin Phoenix got right at the Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix has been rightly lambasted for his acceptance speech at the 2020 Academy Awards, in which he lent the weight of his celebrity to stamping out the grave evil of domesticating cattle. Continue Reading...

August 05, 2019

Magic cards and market forces

Back in the 1990s, the debut of Magic: The Gathering marked a new form of gaming: collectible card games. While many may remember it similarly to Pogs, for example, Magic survived where Pogs did not. Continue Reading...

May 09, 2019

The Ten Commandments or ‘Ten Thousand Commandments’

On Mt. Sinai, the Lord handed Moses the Ten Commandments divinely traced by His own finger. The Torah expounded these into 613 laws; but in 2018 the collected regulations issued by the federal government, known as the Federal Register, took up 61,308 pages. Continue Reading...

July 10, 2018

Deregulation: When to wash a pig

You could be prosecuted on the federal level if you “make any incision” on hog carcasses before all “hair, scurf and dirt, including all hoofs and claws, (is) removed from hog carcasses and the carcasses thoroughly washed and cleaned.” Continue Reading...

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