American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

June 2019

More Than a Home

The Mortgage Crash Gave Us This Big Opportunity in Housing Today By Dr. David Eifrig In 2018, the housing market was booming. Prices for existing homes were on the rise. Sales were brisk. And builders kept planning more construction through the end...

June 2019

Artificial Intelligence

Is It Coming to Get You? By John Tierney Who’s afraid of AI? Too many of us. Particularly since Boeing’s computerized pilot started flying airliners into the ground. But our fears have less to do with the dangers of artificial intelligence than with...

June 2019

Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction

Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke The amazing thing about free-market capitalism is that it gets rid of stuff that doesn’t work. You say, “Amazing? When stuff doesn’t work, of course you get rid of it!” If you’ve got a washing...

May 2019

Julian Assange: Political Prisoner

In my opinion: By Dr. Ron Paul Last month’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a U.S. extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the U.S. Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It...

May 2019

The Value of Fake News

By Josh Friedman On a trip to Ethiopia in the 1990s, I met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to try to persuade him to stop jailing journalists. Since Meles’ guerillas had ousted a repressive Soviet-backed dictatorship a few years before, there had...