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Washington Examiner

Berlin Wall anniversary offers lessons for today

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/09/2024

The Berlin Wall toppled 35 years ago. First, the world looked on with awe, and then the disbelief gave way to jubilation.

Capitalism

National Review

We Must Reject Our Elites’ Failed, Top-Down Environmentalism

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 02/13/2024

Last month in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) held its 54th annual meeting where world leaders suggested countries should make significant concessions to address…

Energy and Environment

Reason

LASSMAN: Financial Giants Are Suddenly Realizing The Left’s ESG Movement Has Serious Downsides

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 01/25/2023

Advocates for aggressive environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards have tried to achieve social and political objectives through anti-democratic and unrepresentative means.  Whether…

Energy and Environment

The Hill

Congress can promote growth by lowering regulatory barriers for consumers and businesses

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 12/29/2022

Three quarters of Americans surveyed by Gallup say they disapprove of the way Congress handles the job of governing. We also know…

Regulatory Reform

National Review

COP27 Cables: Cash, Promises, and Absurdity

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/20/2022

As was the case for the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, I’m filing cables on the annual United Nations–led climate-change confab. This year,…

Energy

National Review

Conversations about Forced Scarcity, COP27 Finds Its Hero

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/18/2022

The processes internal to the COP27 negotiations are far behind schedule to produce any consensus on tough issues such as reparations, but attendees found…

Energy

National Review

COP27 Cables: China and Other Evasions

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/16/2022

TL;DR Tuesday’s theme of the day was energy, which is a delicious irony considering how much of the COP27 discussion focuses on how…

Energy and Environment

National Review

COP27 Cables: Reality Bites and the Gobbledygook of Nonbinding Goals

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/15/2022

As was the case for the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, I’m filing cables on the annual United Nations–led climate-change confab. This year,…

Energy and Environment

The Daily Caller

Financial Giants Are Suddenly Realizing The Left’s ESG Movement Has Serious Downsides

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 10/16/2022

Advocates for aggressive environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards have tried to achieve social and political objectives through anti-democratic and unrepresentative means.  Whether…

Business and Government

Daily Caller

LASSMAN: Financial Giants Are Suddenly Realizing The Left’s ESG Movement Has Serious Downsides

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 10/16/2022

Advocates for aggressive environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards have tried to achieve social and political objectives through anti-democratic and unrepresentative means.  Whether…

Financial Regulation

The Hill

Isolating China through decoupling would be a mistake

  • By: Iain Murray, Kent Lassman
  • 07/25/2022

What should be the goal of America’s trade policy with China? The simple answer would be mutually beneficial exchange of goods, services and payments.

Deregulation

The Tribune-Democrat

Earth Day Should Be Retired

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 04/17/2022

After more than five decades, it is time to let go of Earth Day. Conceived by peace activists and initially promoted by international…

Climate

National Review

COP 26 Cables: The Glasgow Pact Is a Cry for Central Planning

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/16/2021

TL;DR: The COP26 meetings closed with a whimper as realpolitik dashed dreams of an immediate green revolution. The insular community that thrives…

Climate

National Review

COP26 Cables: A Bit of Argy Bargy among Countries Seeking the Spotlight in Glasgow

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/12/2021

My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I are filing brief cables on COP26, the international climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Below is…

Energy and Environment

National Review

COP26 Cables: Lights, Camera, Action!

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/11/2021

My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I are filing brief cables on COP26, the international climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Below is…

Climate

National Review

COP26 Cables: Nothing Is Quite as It Seems in Glasgow

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/09/2021

My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I are filing brief cables on COP26, the international climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Below is…

Energy

The Washington Examiner

Our Conversation About the Environment is Broken. What is the Way Forward?

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 04/22/2021

In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin predicted that “accelerating rates of air pollution could become so serious by the 1980s that…

Energy

Washington Examiner

Congress must reassert its legislative authority

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 03/18/2021

It is tempting to claim that resource allocation questions are starker than ever. The classic formulation in political science is guns…

Regulatory Reform

The Hill

Time to Rein in Government’s Pandemic Overreach — Starting with CDC’s Eviction Ban

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 12/04/2020

Co-authored by Steven D. Anderson When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is written, it will need a section on the…

Health and Safety

The Washington Examiner

Kill the Never-Needed Regulations Slowing the Economic Recovery

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 06/02/2020

Our attention is focused on a single, terrible story like we’ve rarely seen before, a story that commands such a level of attention because it…

Consumer Well-Being

The Washington Examiner

Contact Tracing: Let the Private Sector Lead

  • By: Kent Lassman, Patrick Hedger
  • 05/01/2020

As state and local restrictions begin to relax, the essential questions for many people are remarkably similar to what we asked in March. What will…

Business and Government

Washington Examiner

Contact tracing: Let the private sector lead

  • By: Kent Lassman, Patrick Hedger
  • 04/30/2020

As state and local restrictions begin to relax, the essential questions for many people are remarkably similar to what we asked in March. What…

Fox News

Lassman & Murray: Is New Conservatism Really Progressivism?

  • By: Iain Murray, Kent Lassman
  • 12/02/2019

For much of the past century, conservatives in America largely fused the ideas, means and political factions of two distinct worldviews: traditional social arrangements informed by…

Capitalism

Fox News

Daniel Turner, Kent Lassman: Green New Deal is No Deal at All – We Know because We Studied It

  • By: Daniel Turner, Kent Lassman
  • 08/06/2019

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., unveiled the Green New Deal in February, they instantly changed the conversation on environmental policy. What in times past…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Times

Building New Free Trade Alliances

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 11/07/2018

Since the start of the Trump administration, trade has been front and center. The United States has begun raising tariffs and other trade barriers against…

Trade and International

Washington Times

Why the U.S. and Switzerland should capitalize on momentum to forge a trade deal

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 06/06/2018

Since the start of the Trump administration, trade has been front and center. The United States has begun raising tariffs and other trade barriers…

Op-Eds

The Institutions of Liberty & Liberal Democracy: What is Old Must Be New Again

  • By: Kent Lassman
  • 07/17/2017

View PDF File Thank you Barbara. When you say such flattering things about me, the temptation is to say thank you…

The Washington Post

The Environmental Campaign that Punishes Free Speech

  • By: Kent Lassman, Sam Kazman
  • 04/23/2016

With seven state attorneys general and Al Gore sharing a New York City stage, there was no doubt about it: It was showtime for…

Energy and Environment

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