Vernon L. Smith is one of the leading economists of our time. He was born in Wichita, on January 1, 1927. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize with Daniel Kahneman. Professor Smith has taught at many universities. He is a classical liberal, in the mold of a Smith of yore: Adam. With Jay, he talks about his life, his findings, and freedom—glo…

What to make of the astounding, worldwide coalition shifts we’ve seen over the last decade? There are few better to pose the question to than Ruy Teixiera. He and Henry dive into the Democratic Party’s abandonment of the white working class and the Republican Party’s clumsy attempt to win them over. Plus, Henry takes a look at a well-made ad from t…

Today the Chicks chat about all the latest drama with Speaker Johnson, Nancy Pelosi’s obsession with a Trump/Putin conspiracy, and the craziest lie Biden has ever told. Source Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/mock-and-daisy/daily-dish-speaker-johnson-under-fire-pelosi-pushes-trump-conspiracy-bi…

This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy features Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Maine Wire, a digital investigative news outlet, who joins our guest host, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. The two experts discuss how Chinese criminal organizations have established illegal weed grows…

On March 20, 2024, the Reagan Institute held its second annual National Security Innovation Base Summit in Washington, D.C. The event convened prominent thought leaders, current and former public officials, investors, and representatives of the most innovative industry and technology companies to discuss the important issues facing our annual Natio…

Plutarch is one of history’s most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hamilton, Nietzsche to Montesquieu. Yet, today his writings have fallen out of favor, in part because the genre he pioneered, biography, has fallen out of favor within academia, though it retains popularity…

That’s the advice of podcast guest Liel Leibovitz, zooming in from Tel Aviv to discuss the Columbia hearings before the House yesterday and how the anti-Semitism revealed there has unmistakable echoes of past horrors—and threatens future horrors. Give a listen. Source Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/p…

The Supreme Court will determine the fate of a major Jan. 6 Capitol riot-related case. The ruling could affect hundreds of people who were in the Capitol that day in 2021, and at the center of the case is the applicability of a federal statute. The Justice Department has been using a statute enacted in the early 2000s to prosecute those in the Capi…

President Biden’s campaign swing through Pennsylvania this week is notable for two things – three days devoted to one “swing” state, and a nuanced message regarding the US economy that’s heavy on class-warfare rhetoric and light on inflationary concerns. Mickey Levy, a macroeconomist and Hoover Institution visiting fellow, explains the complicated …

Up on today’s Problematic Women – We break down the latest on Iran’s attack against Israel. Then, conflicts in the Middle East remain difficult to navigate. We explain the current alliances. Plus, Tax Day was Monday. What’s the federal government doing with your money? It may surprise you. And as always, we’ll be crowning our Problematic Woman of t…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: · Speaker Mike Johnson will back four foreign aid bills that includes nearly $100 billion in spending. · The Columbia University president is grilled in a House hearing on antisemitism · Lawmakers react to a Daily Signal story about an NGO distributing flyers urging illegal aliens to vote …

Evidence points to generations of Americans increasingly less informed as to their republic’s origins and system of checks and balances, so it is not surprising that more Americans are less engaged in their communities and are increasingly pessimistic about the future. Checker Finn, a Hoover Institution adjunct senior fellow and past chairman of Ho…

You may already know about the mounting evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that suggests our universe was designed for large multi-cellular beings like ourselves. But did you know there is also evidence that Earth is uniquely fit for human technology? Source Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https…