I was recently reminded of a profound truth about the free market and the prices that sit at its center. Unfortunately, this truth is often overlooked by both critics of the market economy and by economists like myself. This simple truth is that the price system works thanks to and only because ...

WASHINGTON — So I gave a talk on President Andrew Jackson, counting the ways he harshly steered the country wrong, wrong and wrong again. The Trail of Tears. Closing the Bank of the United States, Alexander Hamilton's masterpiece. Naming hateful racist Roger Taney as chief justice. The ...

PHILADELPHIA — It is just about 7:30 on a Thursday evening. Near Independence Hall, the cars ahead of me stop at a red light. As the traffic signal turns green and the vehicles start moving forward, a gang of young men on dirt bikes and motorcyclists tears through the red light and straight ...

At least one Democrat has started to figure out how to exploit a GOP weakness. He's Tim Ryan, who is running against J.D. Vance for Ohio's open Senate seat. What has Ryan figured out? He's calling out Vance as a beta male. Look, in a different world — say, the planet Vulcan — where the ...

WASHINGTON — Our town awaits with bated breath as a beautiful autumn falls on the midterm campaigns and the sedition trial of five "Oath Keepers." And we miss the murdered Rose Garden. The 2022 election for Congress is a real tug of war — some even say "civil war." What happens in close ...

The upcoming midterm election has got me thinking about divided government. In normal times, the prospect of newly shared power in Washington might have me looking forward to the resulting slowdown of one party's hyperactive agenda. The Democrats who are in power are indeed pushing a fiscal and ...