Opinion

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently  proposed fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks to reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. In the press release Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx remarked, “Once upon a time, to be pro-environment you had to be…

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, recently introduced legislation to allow state tax collectors to require out-of-state retailers to collect taxes for them, even if the retailer has no connection to their state. Called the Remote Transactions Parity Act (H.R. 2775), it has, like similar bills before it, troubling implications for Internet commerce and for principles of…

The federal government is now calling abstinence and monogamy “the most reliable way to avoid transmission of STDs,” rather than just “a reliable way.” This change was made in the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest version of its Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, released earlier this month. Beyond avoiding STDs, there are…

Professor Edward Schlosser (a pseudonym) recently wrote a provocatively titled piece: “I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me.”  The professor discusses identity politics and the culture of offense that has grown on college campuses. And if Northwestern University School of Communication professor Laura Kipnis and the aftermath of her Title IX investigation…

This month we celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, which secured rights for free Englishmen, and, more importantly, established what would later become the principle of the rule of law. In a Wall Street Journal piece to commemorate the anniversary, Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, argued the Magna Carta…

It won’t be long before Americans all across the country are celebrating our great national birthday. And we won’t do so quietly. “It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty,” John Adams, our second president, wrote of July 4. “It ought to be solemnized with pomp and…