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Consider the case of Milton Friedman.

Today’s gross domestic product accounting format treats many examples of economic rent as “product,” not as zero-sum transfer payments. The result is to give rentier activities, above all, those of the finance, insurance and real estate sectors the illusion that they play a productive role rather than merely transferring income from debtors, clients, and renters to creditors,

Ivison: The atrocities we witnessed over the weekend in Israel may tilt the balance away from the indulgence that has prevailed in Canada.

The former finance minister of Greece warns that politicians can’t do anything about the growing power of big business

Less well-known that Kirk and Buckley, the pugnacious and discerning Kendall is nevertheless a voice that needs to be revived in the present fractious moment.

Ivison: The atrocities we witnessed over the weekend in Israel may tilt the balance away from the indulgence that has prevailed in Canada.

Ivison: The atrocities we witnessed over the weekend in Israel may tilt the balance away from the indulgence that has prevailed in Canada.

There are practical ways in which we could immediately start to save our species from ecological and social crisis and our planet from being (...)

In “The Canceling of the American Mind” (Simon & Schuster, out Oct. 17), Post columnist Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff of FIRE take a deep-dive into how cancel culture works — and how we can short circuit it.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero