Joe Selvaggi talks with economic scholar Dr. Brian Domitrovic about the history of federal tax policy and the reasons for why varied marginal rates fail to correlate with either tax revenue or GDP growth.

Hub Wonk: Tax Man Confounded: Why High Rates Haven’t Yielded Higher Revenue (#198)

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Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, reminding us once again that Republicans are living up to their reputation as “the stupid party” with the proposed “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” that seems to have overlooked this quaint old thing called the First Amendment. Steve gamely tries to defend the political strategy behind it, but Lucretia is having none […]

Power Line: The Three Whisky Happy Hour: “Never Murder a Man Who Is Committing Suicide”

Today is May Day, but also the Victims of Communism Memorial Day, and as such today is the prefect days for this classic-hybrid format podcast, featuring Steve Hayward in a conversation with Elizabeth Spalding, chair of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. (Elizabeth is also Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy […]

Power Line: Victims of Communism Memorial Day (#480)

Richard and John respond to the clearing of student protests at major universities and judge their claims to the validity of their encampments. They also discuss the likelihood that the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and whether President Biden will continue the pressure that his predecessor did on the […]

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik: The Professors Strike Back: The 1st Amendment on Campus, ICC’s Overreach, and Presidential Immunity (#173)

PREORDER Glenn’s memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 A message from Glenn 3:56 Tyler’s research on human extinction and the end of the world 12:11 Tyler’s two forthcoming books 13:38 How elite schools incentivize “compulsory racial performance” 18:40 The “mission creep” of identity […]

The Glenn Show: John McWhorter & Tyler Austin Harper – Compulsory Racial Performance

This is a rebroadcast of the Gray Center’s Federal Preemption and Environmental Regulation Webinar. We hosted this event on April 29, 2024, to discuss the issues involved in two pending cases where energy companies have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the Clean Air Act preempts attempts by Honolulu, Hawaii, to redress certain […]

Hub Wonk: Tax Man Confounded: Why High Rates Haven’t Yielded Higher Revenue (#198)

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