Orthodox Jewish Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Rachael Behr LaRose

Rachael LaRose offers a new Feature on private responses to public health crises, much in the same vein as Byron Carson’s February Feature. LaRose illustrates a helpful distinction between economic and technical solutions to crises, and uses the responses of Orthodox Jewish communities around the world as evidence that communities remain “vital agents in disseminating accurate information and implementing localized responses, playing a crucial role in the recovery process.”

Why Protect a Rich South Korea from a Nuclear North Korea?

By Doug Bandow

“Why is North Korea America’s problem? Such is the price Americans pay for what is known in Washington as ‘global leadership.'” So argues Doug Bandow in our new Feature, suggesting that South Korea’s nuclear ambitions are the business of a United States, even under a narrow interpretation of what we mean by “national defense.”

Milton Friedman's Many Battles

By Arnold Kling

In 2020, Joe Biden declared that, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show any more.” Whether Biden was right or not, it’s certainly true that Friedman did run the show for many years- especially in the early 1970s.This month, Arnold Kling takes us on a tour of Jennifer Burns’s best-selling Friedman bio and of Friedman’s policy victories.

America's Animal Spirits

By Samuel Gregg

Cultural historian Jackson Lears wants to dispel the notion of Americans as “a nation of buttoned-down utility-maximizers, managers, and workers obsessed with realizing ever-greater efficiencies in a rather mundane and utterly predictable manner.” In this new new book review, Samuel Gregg explores the animating “animal spirits” which may better explain American vitality.

How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)

There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of the real world. Jeremy Weber of the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Statistics for Public Policy hopes his book can close that gap. He talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how to use numbers thoughtfully and honestly

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