Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Four Women Who Hated Identity Politics

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March 29, 2025
Senior Fellow Abigail Hall Blanco visits the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center and explains why Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs is well worth reading.

Ohio Senate Bill 1 Takes the Lead Against Woke Schools
Senior Fellow Richard Vedder praises the Trump administration’s attack on the status quo in higher education—and describes an equally important revolution occurring at the state and local level.

Four Women Who Hated Identity Politics
As Women’s History Month comes to an end, Research Fellow Jonathan Bean praises four women who, contrary to the prevailing narrative of the women’s movement, reject the obsession with group identity and victim status.

Trump Should Listen to Milei on Protectionism and Growth
Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell argues Trump should focus on deregulation, cutting government spending, and lowering taxes, as President Milei has.

The Problem with Trumponomics
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip Magness gives the real history of tariffs and explains why Trump is so wrong about them.

MORE MEDIA ATTENTION

MSN

Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas praises Richard Vedder’s application of “creative destruction” to universities in his new book, Let Colleges Fail. Read more »

North State Journal

Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., asks: should one unelected and uncountable official be permitted to obstruct policy prerogatives of the elected president of the United States? Read more »

WMUZ Radio

Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip Magness reflects on how COVID lockdowns threatened liberty. Read more »

Reason

Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook explains what Attorney General Pam Bondi’s move to introduce a rule allowing her office to review gun possession petitions (that a federal agency has been blocked from considering since 1992) means.  Read more »

Minding the Campus

Senior Fellow Richard Vedder asks: can golf forestall Albright College’s creative destruction? Read more »

Brittanica.com

The editors of ProCon cite Research Fellow Christopher Calton in a piece on Housing First policies. Read more »

The American Spectator

Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley criticizes California’s politicians for forgetting people once streamed into California from far and wide … and not caring that most of the traffic is now on the way out. Read more »

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