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What estate sales taught me

Estate sales are a newer thrifting experience for me. I've always loved to shop at Goodwill and hunt for designer labels and hidden treasures, but estate sales have a different feel. I'd never gone to one until my mom got a house in Florida. The local retirement communities have estate ...

We're not teaching entrepreneurship well

I've been teaching entrepreneurship for more than 25 years. My degrees in English and law and my lifelong love of politics have provided a different perspective and a distinct pedagogy. I want students to understand the contributions entrepreneurship has made to American prosperity and ...

AI plays role in regulatory capture

American businesses have long practiced what political scientists call regulatory capture. A company that cannot repeal a law takes control of the people the government put in charge of enforcing it. The airlines did it to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which in 40 years never approved a ...

Washington would deport Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil wants to take the case against his deportation all the way to the Supreme Court – and if the justices accept it, they will be deciding one of the oldest and most controversial questions in American politics, a dispute more than 200 years old. Khalil is not an ...

Americans can learn from French protests

On Monday, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez admitted that police have "lost control" as some cities continue to see massive waves of looting and mayhem. Social media brims with images of stores being ransacked, cars burning, and mask-wearing goons running wild. In Limoges, the ...

Why is Paris, much of France burning?

Watching the riots throughout France made me think of the classic 1966 film "Is Paris Burning?" The plot was inspired by Adolf Hitler's 1944 order for German troops to destroy the city should Allied forces appear ready to capture it. Fortunately, the general tasked with fulfilling the order ...