Culture Wars/Current Controversies

HHS is using AI effectively? Someone’s hallucinating.

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August 23, 2025

HHS is using AI effectively? Someone’s hallucinating.
Research Fellow Raymond J. March points out AI isn’t living up to the promises of RFK Jr and HHS—though it is working for private health companies.

Private ownership of forests and land reduces wildfires
Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan asks why wildfire discussions so often focus on drought, extreme temperatures, severe winds, and the buildup of dry vegetation…but not economics?

Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Research Fellow Christopher Calton explains how San Francisco, once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.

Puncturing the New Deal’s Mythology
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness reviews Research Fellow George Selgin’s new book, False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recover, 1933—1947.

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The Price of Business Show

Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness explains the impact of tariffs on the US economy. Listen now »

Real Clear Investigations

Journalist Lee Fang interviews Senior Fellow Williamson Evers, who rejects calls for minority students to abandon math education over alleged racism. Read more »

The College Fix

Journalist Gabriel Zylstra reviews Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness’s new book, The 1619 Project Myth. Read more »

The American Spectator

Policy Fellow K. Loyd Billingsley reviews Frank S. Meyer’s new book, The Man Who Invented Conservatism. Read more »

The Library of Economics and Liberty

Research Fellow David Henderson links to and praises What If Everything You’ve Heard about the 1619 Project Is Wrong?, an Independent Policy Forum held in Oakland, CA. Read more »

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