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By Lawrence W. Reed Fought in stadiums before tens of thousands of boisterous onlookers, ancient Roman gladiator duels are well known today—more than 1 600 years since the last one was fought. Too few people, however, know of the one…
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By Michelle Prado When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying…
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Rumors have swirled that Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian are giving up on California ever since it was reported that the rapper had purchased a $14 million “monster ranch” in Cody, Wyoming. (It’s actually called that: Monster Lake…
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By Aaron Pomerantz Todd Phillips’ Joker has received a rather polarized response. Though the movie won best film at the Venice Film Festival, many reviewers have referred to the movie as “dangerous,” fearing it might inspire incels…
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Corey Iacono, FEE. In 1847, Karl Marx wrote that Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry…cause slavery to disappear and you will have wiped America off the map of nations. As with most of his…
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By Paul Boyce For US citizens aged between 18 and 24 years, college enrollment rates reached more than 40 percent in 2017. Of those, nearly one in three (31 percent) drop out entirely. Why should the average taxpayer subsidize this?…
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By Marian L. Tupy and Alexander Hammond Since Nicolas Maduro was sworn into his second term as President of Venezuela in January 2019, stories of civil unrest and economic hardship from the small Latin American country have dominated…
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