The Open Market Blog

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/05/2012

Associate Director of Technology Policy Studies and Iowa native Ryan Radia takes a look at how the different kinds of Republican voters are deciding on…

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/13/2011

If there's any lesson to be learned from presidential candidates' shared T.R. fetish, it's that only those truly in love with power can endure the…

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/08/2011

Here's a letter of mine that ran in today's Wall Street Journal:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/05/2011

In his eagerness to attack free markets, Mr. Stern has confused the mixed economy’s crony capitalism for the real thing.

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/02/2011

Kumar does not mention that Virginia’s budget is set to increase by $1.1 billion in 2012. This new spending outweighs the proposed cuts by a…

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/01/2011

The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that "Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt." Matt Patterson, CEI's 2011-12 Warren Brookes Fellow, applies Tacitus'…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/29/2011

An (inentionally?) humorous lede in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Internal Revenue Service office in Seattle is investigating an infestation of possible blood-sucking parasites -- bedbugs…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/29/2011

Editor, Politico: Jonathan Allen’s November 28 article, “Mandatory budget cuts after supercommittee failure will trigger pain for some,” is misleading. A cut is when spending…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/28/2011

Isaac Newton's life was a landmark event in the history of science. His funeral was, unknowingly, a landmark event in the history of human freedom.

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/27/2011

Rousseau's Original Man in the state of nature assumes away our innate social tendencies. From his false premises come many of his false conclusions:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/26/2011

Deirdre McCloskey's Great Fact is the leaps and bounds that human well-being has made over the last 200 years. The improvement is a factor of…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/25/2011

Erskine tells a story that explains to Paine’s prosecutors why someone who threatens force during an argument is almost surely wrong:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/24/2011

This quote from friend-of-CEI Matt Ridley is too good not to share. Something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving:…

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/22/2011

Classical references aside, Cohen seems to be innocent of historical knowledge.