For more than 60 years, U.S. officials have claimed that to release their secret JFK-assassination-related records would threaten “national security.” That was their position during the Warren Commission hearings in 1964 and during the House Select Committee hearings in the 1970s. That’s what they told the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. That’s what they told President Trump during his first term in office. That’s how they got President Biden to order the continued secrecy of the […]
Tweet Here’s a letter to Business Standard. Editor: You report that “in a high-stakes call with top US automakers earlier this month, US President Donald Trump issued a warning: Do not raise car prices in response to his new tariffs” (“Trump warns auto industry: No car price hikes after tariff shake-up,” March 27). This warning, like his tariff policy, is inconsistent with Mr. Trump’s stated goal of helping ordinary Americans and improving the U.S. economy. Because the tariffs […]
“Luxury beliefs” are the ideological equivalent of an icy tray of Blue Point oysters—trendy, expensive, and often impractical for the average person, but deeply satisfying for those who can afford them. And, on rare occasions, sickening. The term, coined by writer Rob Henderson, describes a set of ideas that he believes confer status on elites while imposing costs on everyone else. In his accounting, these include: academic elites advocate prison abolition while living in low-crime neighborhoods; Silicon Valley […]
On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into the maw of the federal prison system. The Trump administration ignored a federal court order and took Ozturk from Massachusetts to Louisiana federal detention facilities. But the Trump administration knew Ozturk had criticized the government of Israel a […]
Tweet … is from page 68 of Art Carden’s and GMU Econ alum Caleb Fuller’s forthcoming (in April 2025) book, Mere Economics (footnotes deleted; links added): Trade skeptics overlook the dispersed benefits. Some find virtue in paying more for “fair trade” coffee, goods “made in America,” and local produce, but as twentieth-century economic journalist Henry Hazlitt reminds us, “the art of economics” means looking at the costs and benefits for everyone, not just the highly visible beneficiaries. It’s […]
Oliver Stone and Others Testify on President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records The key remaining major issue that merits full investigation and intensive revelation is the supposed “fact” discussed in this “hearing” is that the alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald went to Mexico City, met with Russian and Cuban authorities, and sought to obtain the proper authorized documents to go to Cuba, and later the Soviet Union. Oswald did NOT go to Mexico City. FBI director J. […]