It is an apt description for a high-speed rail project that has been plagued from the start by fanciful assumptions and the inability to identify a funding source for the vast majority of the project.

Increasingly, kids look at colleges as sort of a sophisticated form of vocational education that once was a staple of many high schools.

Selective excise taxes may raise revenue for the public sector by targeting the consumption of things that elites disdain, but they do not save millions of lives.

The freer an economy becomes, the less likely its people are to become entrapped in extreme poverty.

People get their ideas about the risks they likely face from the news, but what makes something newsworthy is the fact that it’s unlikely.

We need to change the incentive system, making schools face financial consequences for accepting students with shaky academic backgrounds who are unlikely to complete college.

At the federal, state, and local levels, overregulation has households and businesses struggling to keep their heads above water against a tsunami of compliance costs.

NIMBYism can be hard to understand until you see it play out in community meetings and zoning board or utility commission hearings.

Phrases like "these people" lend themselves to exaggeration and hyperbole that drown out conversation and communication.

It is easy to see UBI as a policy incentivizing elites to care less and less about the structural problems that affect working class people.