DNC Celebrates ‘Freedom,’ But Not Liberty – OpEd
The Democratic National Convention featured the word freedom over and over and over. It used Beyonce’s song, “Freedom.” Kamala Harris
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Author: Gary M. Galles
Gary M. Galles is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His most recent book is Pathways to Policy Failures (2020).
Articles by Gary M. Galles :
What Chalkboard Curves Ignore – OpEd
Economists are famous for drawing diagrams, as so often illustrated in their traditional “chalk and talk” classroom presentations. Some of
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Robinson-Patman Deserves Last Rites, Not Resurrection – OpEd
The 1936 Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), once a lynchpin of antitrust enforcement actions, because the government almost always won under its
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Creating So Many Jobs That Destroy Wealth – OpEd
When Americans face an intense, hyper-partisan Presidential election, every labor market report becomes fodder for Administration claims of what great
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Failed Proof That Every Vote Counts – OpEd
Since we are in a presidential election year, with campaigns already revealing bitter divisions, Americans are about to be carpet-bombed
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Two Birds Of A Fiscal Feather – OpEd
For decades, controversies about property taxes and rent control have been near the top of the list of state and
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Not A Very Virtuous Virtue Signal – OpEd
As reported by Reason, a group including about 250 million- and billionaires calling themselves Proud to Pay More (P2PM) advocated the imposition of
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A Statue Worth Preserving: A Man Worth Honoring – OpEd
While the peak of threats against every statue celebrating American history seems to have passed, one recent example stood out
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Presidents May Want A Line-Item Veto, But Citizens May Not – OpEd
What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both
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Still Failing To Learn The Lessons Of Antipoverty Programs – OpEd
One of the lesser-known realities of the War on Poverty was that while poverty rates were falling substantially before it
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