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Jan 16, 2025 | 
gold-eagle.com | David Hebert
What explains the curious lack of economic progress in the EU over the past 16 years? In 2008, the economies of the European Union and the United States were roughly equal in size in terms of GDP. Fast forward through a global financial crisis and pandemic and the US economy has nearly doubled while Europe’s has barely grown at all. How can we explain this? One answer is to point out the glaring problem with comparing EU GDP in 2008 to EU GDP in 2023: Brexit.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
thedailyeconomy.org | David Hebert
Europe is a wonderfully diverse continent, with 44 countries, each with its own rich (and long) history and unique constellation of policies. Despite this, though, there are no trillion-dollar companies in all of Europe. In fact, of the eleven companies worldwide to reach this level, nine are in the United States, with the other two being in Taiwan and Saudi Arabia.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Hebert
December 19, 2024 Analysts regularly predict that China is either on the verge of collapse or greatness. If there is one thing we can count on, it is the annual warning that China is on the verge of collapsing. Don’t believe me? Here are articles from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. And here is another article with citations going back to 1990, all warning about the same thing: that China’s economy will crash and it will crash hard.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Paul Mueller |David Goldman |Iain Murray |David Hebert
Analogies have the power to reveal new relationships and to reframe how we think. Good analogies help us understand the world. They use relationships and phenomena we experience to help us understand more complex or abstract phenomena. On the other hand, bad analogies can cause grave errors.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Iain Murray |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney
December 3, 2024 It’s unlikely that Americans will be going separate ways, but they are certainly worlds apart. Cosmology is a subject that is far too difficult for me. For example, I find it impossible to understand the idea of the Big Bang, let alone the idea that there might be two or more universes. The nearest I can come to understanding the latter is the commentary I see on the Internet regarding the American election.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | R. J. Snell |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds
American institutions of higher learning, perhaps especially the most selective of them, are failing to help students become tolerant, reflective, and respectful of different viewpoints. Intolerance and dogmatism are common, resulting in censorship, cancel culture, unreasonable limits on free speech, unlawful protests, and violence. Student dogmatism is enabled by faculty orthodoxies, of this, there is little doubt.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Elizabeth Amato |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Alah S. Kahan
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism, is a formidable volume. In it, Alan S. Kahan aims to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the intellectual history of liberalism, what drives changes within liberalism over time, and the future of liberalism. Clocking in at just over 500 pages, the book is an extensive, dense history that traces delicate, nuanced ideological twists and turns from liberalism’s origins to the present day.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Carson Holloway |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds
I am grateful to Law & Liberty for publishing this forum on New York Times v. Sullivan and the meaning of the First Amendment. I also wish to thank the other contributors for the thought and care they put into their responses to my critique of the Sullivan doctrine. Their arguments help to clarify the issues involved in this important matter. I will try to address their principal points as thoroughly as I can, moving from the less radical to the more radical criticisms.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon
For years, Republicans have vowed to focus on the biggest issue plaguing the United States: our federal debt. Now, in the wake of their victory earlier this month, they have a chance to make good on those promises.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Michael Lucchese |Iain Murray |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney
Patriotism is, sadly, out of fashion in elite circles. On the left, critics of America argue that the injustices and hypocrisies of the Founding invalidate the republic’s highest ideals. On the right, increasing numbers seem to believe that the country has entered a period of moral decline—which some even attribute to the Founders themselves.
