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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Times (of London): Editor: In “The political class have lost their taste for risk” (March 25), James Forsyth identifies a great danger unleashed by the public and political reaction to Covid-19: governments’ determination to pursue safety at all costs. The most...

Note the title doesn’t refer to Biden, Trump, Obama, or the sundry actors, bigots, dolts, drunks, miscreants, narcissists, ne’er do wells, pettifoggers, philanderers, slaveholders, and statists who preceded them in the Oval Office. It refers to Thomas Paine’s notion of how America should select its...

On this day 16 years ago, the popular show The Office made its television debut, quickly becoming well-known for its irreverent yet insightful takes on office life. In ‘mockumentary’ format, the commonalities and mundanities of day-to-day office life familiar to tens of millions of Americans...