Category Philosophy and Religion

Coats, Pencils, and Division of Data

Early in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith introduced up a woolen coat of the sort the typical workman of eighteenth-century Scotland would possibly discover acquainted. The coat was, Smith argued, a surprise of cooperation and an instance of the…

Comedy of Errors Has European Farmers Fuming

Farmers in a number of European nations—together with France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Romania—are livid once more, protesting in opposition to their neighbors, the European Union, the US, Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, and different non-European nations. They’re mad on the…

Renters Are the Largest Losers in Kentucky’s New Registration Regulation

My home state of Kentucky is known primarily for bourbon, horse races and ranking at or near the bottom of things like education, women’s health and poverty. But none of this is surprising considering Kentucky lawmakers’ unending commitment to patently backward policies. Take the…

Arizona Ought to Not Look to California for Housing Options

“Don’t California my Arizona”—these phrases will be discovered on every little thing from T-shirts to tire covers. The slogan speaks to the concern that the Californians fleeing to Arizona will deliver with them the very insurance policies that propelled their…