The Washington Post Sunday, March 28, 1999; Page B02 Hard to Swallow:The Scandal in the School Lunch Program Isn’t About Pizza At first glance, the facts seem to tell the story: Last week, the principal of Alice Deal Junior High School in Northwest Washington was placed on administrative leave with pay for the unauthorized selling of pizzas to his
The condition of the American medical profession at the close of the Civil War was, in almost every particular, significantly different from that which obtains today. The profession was, throughout the country, unlicensed and anyone who had the inclination to set himself up as a physician could do so, the exigencies of the market alone determining
I love to read economist Steven Landsburg, even though I almost always disagree with him. In the present article, I’ll focus on a chapter from Landsburg’s forthcoming book entitled “More Sex Is Safer Sex,” which could pass as a parody of economic analysis worthy of Swift. As I will explain more carefully in a moment, Landsburg argues that the way
Congress and the First Lady teamed up to impose the “Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act” on school children across the country, but news of unintended consequences abound . You would think that if you were imposing your will on an entire nation of children that you should subject yourself to the same treatment for a year or so as a kind of experiment.
Americans have more disposable income than nearly every other country on earth. The few exceptions include a handful of northern Western European states and some small city states like Monaco. Even when accounting for government benefits and taxes, Americans still have more income available to spend than almost anyone else. As this measure from
Another week of Trump monopolizing the news cycle, first with a typo and then by exiting the Obama administration’s Paris Climate Agreement. Rejecting the international agreement is not only a victory for American self-determination , but will improve the lives of the billions who were going to bear the real costs of another layer of government
Neil deGrasse Tyson has released a new video aimed at a what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism problem in the United States. It was released at the same time as the March for Science and many Earth Day demonstrations. He reflects on what he thinks made America great and what’s stalling progress today. Science used to be respected, but
The Virginia Tech Professor who blew the whistle on lead in the water in Flint, MI thinks “public science” has been broken. Not knowing its been a broken system all along. In a recent interview , he comes forth with a stinging indictment of government-supported science. He does understand that this widespread problem of incompetent, worthless
Pope Francis made history this week when he became the first pontiff to speak before Congress. While his speech made headlines in calling for global action against the dubious problem of global warming , it became clear that Francis had not listened to the advice of Lew Rockwell or familiarized himself with the works of Tom Woods . In fact, Dr.
America’s universities have been taken over by the Left, but the way they are reacting to the fake covid-19 crisis gives us a chance to reconstitute higher education on sound free market principles. In the name of “diversity,” academic standards have been gutted. Here are some examples. Emily Walton, a sociology professor at Dartmouth , teaches
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.