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My Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy sets the record straight on the GOP’s tax plan [3].
Jeff Jacoby correctly notes that American arts and letters would flourish without the National Endowment for the Arts [4]. (I’ve never understood how anyone can observe politics for more than five minutes and then conclude that mixing politics with arts and literature will improve arts and literature. Such a belief is akin to the supposition that mixing a few ounces of sewerage with Chateau Pétrus will produce an even finer wine.)
Here’s Steve Horwitz on anti-semitism [5].
Kevin Williamson is rightly unimpressed by Trump’s Tuesday-night speech to Congress [6]. (HT Warren Smith)
Mark Perry corrects some of Trump’s alternative facts about labor markets [8].
T. Norman Van Cott explains that exports are a cost and not a benefit [9]. A slice:
People who choose to export while importing as little as possible will find themselves ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed, and possibly dead in short order. How can it be that what is economic wisdom for the individual not apply to a nation? Hint: it can’t!
George Will ponders the task facing the White House’s new budget director [10].
Chelsea Follett celebrates the civilizing effects of caffeine and alcohol [11].