U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was established 15 years ago: ICE was granted a unique combination of civil and criminal au...

Against the dogmatic ignorance of a proposed amendment to the US constitution mandating a balanced budget, I propose an alternative, a fisca...

Rumors are floating on the internet that NEC Chair Lawrence Kudlow is looking for new people to join the team advising President Trump on ec...

Immigration politics in both places has gotten very ugly, but it strikes me that in Europe it may be worse than in the US.  We may be about ...

During June 14-17 I was in Madison, Wisconsin for a conference and related carryings-on labeled as the title of this post.  It was organized...

I have recently returned from participating in a conference in Naples, Italy on "The Economy as a Complex Spatial System" where th...

In my original post, I didn't say much about the overt racist expression in Gomper and the A. F. of L.'s  advocacy for Chinese exclu...

Stephen Miller, architect of the Trump administration's immigration policy is getting a lot of bad press these days. Some wags (and eve...

A piece of work is Professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University. Back in February, I flagged a column by Williams in which the n...

Two business-friendly conservatives, both former senators, Trent Lott and John Breaux, have an op-ed in today’s New York Times announcing t...

I don't want to pretend that this explains everything. But it is "another brick in the wall," so to speak, if not the keystone...

George Leighton, a crusading civil rights lawyer and later a judge, died earlier this month at the ripe age of 105.  He was given an admirin...

It's not a crime if you brag about it on T.V. In fact, it's hardly worth mentioning. What is this about? “We don’t know the answer, ...

Greg offers us a nice speech by Saint Reagan . While Ronald Reagan preached free trade, Jeffrey Frankel notes that his actual record was ra...

I have refused to forecast what two unpredictable leaders will do, and I shall continue that, other than to say I do not believe North Korea...