Geoffrey Norman Archives - American Consequences

April 2021 Daily Magazine Exclusive

Dropping Out: The High Cost of Higher Ed

With total student debt at $1.5 trillion and rising, the same political class that created the problem now proposes to solve it through debt forgiveness. After all, what's another trillion, Mr. President?

Geoffrey Norman

October 2020

Experts Vs. Crackpots

By Geoffrey Norman In the early days of the 20th century, the progressive vision was that widespread war was simply not possible. A bestselling book of the time, The Great Illusion, argued that the cost of war was...

Geoffrey Norman

April 2019

Degrees of Difficulty

Paying for College Forever… The New School of Hard Knocks By Geoffrey Norman The show is called Paid Off and it follows in the tradition of such television classics as Queen for a Day and Family Feud. That is to...

Geoffrey Norman

November 2018

But My Pension!

That Was a Promise! Sorry, there is no money to pay it. By Geoffrey Norman In September, Rahm Emanuel surprised the political cognoscenti when he announced that he would not be running for re-election as mayor of...

Geoffrey Norman

June 2018

Here to Stay: Heroin

It was the kind of story that, five years ago, would have made you sit up and take notice. “Good Lord,” you might have thought. “Unbelievable.”

Geoffrey Norman