David S. D'Amato

People respond to incentives. This is the case regardless of how the politico-economic system in which we live and work is structured.

Job-guarantee proposals have dominated headlines of late, with high-profile politicians such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) advancing the policy.

Duke historian Nancy MacLean made waves in 2017 with her book Democracy in Chains.

Opponents of education choice like to prophesize doom when the subject is raised for debate.

Humankind’s propensity to act selfishly is taken to be an important problem in political theory: an impediment, perhaps, to the utopian dreams of political philosophers.

America is much less the land of the free than it is the land where everything is illegal, where, as John Stossel pointed out in 2012, “No one can know what is legal.”

Predicting the future, even in a game with simple rules and few players is incredibly difficult, even for experts.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office revealed several disturbing, interrelated trends in U.S. public education.

Is it possible to kill “quasi-corporatism”?

The prevailing political discourse seems to be consumed with the bromides of social justice, carefully tended by political and intellectual classes claiming special knowledge of its demands.

For starters, we know it’s not astrophysics…

Just how overregulated are America’s banks?

Almost all Americans seem to acknowledge the failures of the government school system; today’s disagreements and debates are confined only to causes and proposed solutions.