Adam Smith

patrick.goodenough | May 2, 2022
Talk of regime change in Moscow just plays into President Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Russia is facing an existential threat and “adds fuel to…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 10, 2021
Remember last week when I got to report on how both the National School Boards Association’s tax-funded members, and tax-funded Biden Administration…
Connor Grant | March 12, 2021
On Tuesday, the National Guard’s stay at the Capitol was extended to May 23, which is expected to cost $111 million according to the Pentagon,…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 22, 2020
In an effort to shift the blame for COVID-19 from China, where the coronavirus originated, to President Donald Trump, who’s conveniently up for re-…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 10, 2020
It’s the kind of story that echoes citations of postmodernist linguistic maneuvering in the decades-long battle over the politicization of…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 28, 2020
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) has generated a truckload of media attention for her recent announcement that she refuses to pay…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 28, 2019
If one didn’t know better, he or she might suspect Liz Warren’s advisors are trolling her. Just released on her sleep-inducing Twitter feed is a…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 1, 2019
  One of the essential terms I teach students in economics is what Adam Smith described in his 1776 treatise “The Wealth of Nations” as “…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 4, 2019
What does one do when a student at University of Utah complains that the reading assignments in her economics class are too "male"? Raise the…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 29, 2019
(Update: 5/30/19 The original version of this story contained a quote from Reason magazine, that Reason has since removed. MRCTV removed that…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 12, 2018
Remember when the dinosaur pop media threw fits of ultra-fear and rancorous anger upon finding out that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris…