Economics

With Super Tuesday behind us, the would-be front-runner ought to pull a surprise move and just drop attack ads against party rivals. Going positive with a message to save the very programs that are supported by the base of Democrat Party—by taking aggressive steps to balance government revenues and outlays and reengineer a high-growth economy—would be a surprise reversal and Read More ›

The success of new laws and regulations is best measured by how they address and fix the core problems they are designed to solve. By this simple standard, Dodd-Frank is a failure. The regulatory paperwork for banks has nearly tripled, making the processing of loans more difficult, costly and protracted when the economy can least afford it. Banks are still Read More ›

This article, published by The Stanford Review, discusses a talk given by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder’s part of the talk offered a positive counterpoint to Thiel’s. Gilder, now age 72, described in significant detail the technological progress made since his younger years. The rest of the article can be found here.  

We just learned that Discovery Senior Fellow Jay Richard’s book, Indivisible , co-authored with James Robison, has just hit the New York Times bestseller list at No. 5 this week. Earlier this week the Huffington Post pleasantly surprised us by publishing an excellent piece on the necessary role of faith in public life, by Richards and Robison (“Accepting the Obvious: Faith Is an Integral Part of American Read More ›

Faith in the public square seems to worry some Americans. They see the Ten Commandments posted in a courtroom or voluntary prayer at a public event and think they see evidence of a creeping theocracy. Until a couple of centuries ago, of course, religious persecution was a serious problem in the West and the American colonies, and it is still Read More ›

Reflecting on the 44 presidents who have served these United States and the Founding Fathers who had the vision to create our country, questions arise: Is America what the Founders envisioned it to be? If they were here now, what would the Founders do? What would they think? One thing seems clear: Current political debates could stand to be seasoned with Read More ›

Jay Richards, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, and James Robison, founder and president of LIFE Outreach International, are co-authors of the newly published book, INDIVISIBLE: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before it’s Too Late. A bus tour bringing the authors and their message to 22 cities in the Southern U.S. begins February 21st. With a clear conservative perspective, the authors tackle Read More ›