On the Road to a Tariff-Led Recession

President Trump's chaotic tariff policy is all too likely to produce a US and world recession before the year’s end.

By Desmond Lachman
May 2025

Navigating Free Speech at “Hypothetical University”

Perfection is not the standard, and fortunately for your hypothetical career, the bar has not been set exceptionally high.

By Sally Satel, Greg Lukianoff, and Adam Goldstein
May 2025

Displacement by Design

How bad policy made housing scarce—and how we can fix it.

By Ethan Frizzell and Tobias Peter
May 2025
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What Did You Expect to Happen? How DEI Wound Up in Trump’s Crosshairs

Donald Trump has turned the education world upside down. School and college leaders must understand how DEI went wrong.

By Rick Hess
April 2025
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Is Trump’s Golden Dome a Brilliant Idea or a Gilded Boondoggle?

The main mark against Golden Dome is the political risk that a future Congress or new administration will terminate it.

By Todd Harrison
April 2025

The Russian Paradox: So Much Education, So Little Human Capital

Russia does not possess the economic potential one would expect of a European country of its size and educational attainment.

By Nicholas Eberstadt
April 2025