All Hail the Reopening!
What a glorious thing the reopening is! After nearly a year of darkening times, the light has begun to dawn,…
Americans Are Fleeing Lockdowns, When They Can Afford It
For nearly a year, governments have been instructing people to stay put. Don’t leave your home unless you have…
The Economic Policy Failures of the Trump Administration
There is some bitter irony embedded in the original campaign 2016 presidential pitch to “Make America Great Again.” One looks…
A Pandemic Reading List for Left, Right, and Libertarians
Daily the news is pouring in: SARS-CoV-2 behaves like a textbook respiratory virus in its vectors of transmission and its…
In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020.…
Many Pathways to Policy Failure
“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles,” wrote Ludwig…
Catastrophe Is All Around Us
As a naturally optimistic person, it vexes me that the word catastrophe has echoed in my mind since early March…
The Best and Most-Read AIER Articles of 2020
This year, the American Institute for Economic Research published 1,380 articles with 10.5 million readers from all countries in the…
Five Times this Year the New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full…
Your Trauma and Mine: A Retrospective on 2020
Lockdown hell shocked me like nothing else in my lifetime. The very notion that governments would push the off button…
Hope and Freedom in Georgia
If you live in a lockdown state, you might not remember what normal life feels like. I’m pretty sure I…
WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Coronavirus…
The Decimal Point that Blew Up the World
What was the basis of panic that led the lights to darken on civilization? The most important date here might…
The “Expert Consensus” Also Favored Alcohol Prohibition
Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will…
“We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts” ~ Melinda Gates
In a wide-ranging interview in the New York Times, Melinda Gates made the following remarkable statement: “What did surprise us…
Why Does Bitcoin Have Value?
Even after eleven years experience, and a per Bitcoin price of nearly $20,000, the incredulous are still with us. I…
For Many Churches, It Is Too Late
The Supreme Court has decided that there is something not quite kosher about padlocking houses of worship, or imposing extreme…
We Have Immune Systems, New York Times Reveals
Scrub and spray everything with chemicals, bathe in Purrell, mask up, stand no nearer to anyone else than six feet,…
The Thanksgiving Rebellion of 2020
The Centers for Disease Control warned us not to travel or meet in multigenerational gatherings during Thanksgiving. Which is to…
Asymptomatic Spread Revisited
The phrase “fog of war” is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz. It has come to refer to the confusion and…
The Blizzard of Bogus Journalism on Covid
This game of hunt-and-kill Covid cases has reached peak absurdity, especially in media culture. Take a look at Supermarkets are…
Americans are Finally Growing Weary of Lockdowns
There are public protests against lockdowns in Denmark, Italy, France, and all over Europe. They are growing in numbers and…
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study that goes to the heart of the issue of lockdowns.…
It Was a Mistake to Close Schools, UK Study Concedes
On March 12, 2020, the memo went out from the pen of Carter Mecher, bioterrorism expert at advising the Veterans…
The Fun Night that Wasn’t Fun
In the old days, which seem behind us, people were invited to marvel at the workings of the American system.…
Death by Lockdown
On March 28 – very early in the pandemic – AIER published an article that I felt at the time…
Lockdowns Recreated a Pre-Modern Caste System
If you test positive or refuse to be tested at all in New Zealand, prepare to be shipped out to…
Do the Disease Eradicators Make an Elementary Logical Mistake?
I’ve rarely seen it put so bluntly as I have in the video posted below, in an interview with epidemiologist…
The New Feudalism
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to…
Why This Disastrous Experiment Also Hurt States that Did Not Lock Down
Imagine 100 people on a wholly deserted island. Life would be pretty dreadful, right? With only 100 people producing, work…