The Lighthouse: | Orwell in California | Baseball and Moral Hazard | Kids Without Civics

K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)

Gov. Newsom is extending California’s Covid crackdown. Could there be a better example of Robert Higgs’s “Rachet Effect” (government seeking to make permanent temporary ‘emergency’ powers) than Newsom’s Orwellian new “SMARTER Plan”? Its details will shock you. READ MORE »

William F. Shughart II

What can baseball’s 1973 decision to allow designated hitters teach us about the important economic concept of “moral hazard”? Much more than you think…. READ MORE »

Richard K. Vedder (American Spectator)

Today’s college-aged Americans are the first generation in American history to know less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. Who’s at fault? Not the kids. READ MORE »
WATCH: Is Higher Ed Going Off the Rails?

Ivan Eland (National Interest)

Contrary to the views of many, the Framers did not create three “co-equal” branches of government. Congress was meant to be the dominant branch. The Supreme Court, with its recent presidential immunity ruling, just took a hammer blow to that constitutional arrangement. READ MORE »