Anew civil war is brewing. Texas is redistricting its electoral map to help a few Republican candidates in 2026. Democrats in California, New York, and Illinois are threatening retaliatory manipulations of their own. How does gerrymandering work? What shall we do about it? In our Republic, voters are supposed to choose their public servants. With...
President Donald Trump gave the Left one more reason to call him a “fascist” by sending the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Some of Trump’s own supporters are also expressing their frustration with the measures, pointing out that the American Republic was founded in principled opposition to the use of standing armies to police its...
We appreciate Dave Clark’s heartfelt Labor Day reflections in the Midland Daily News on September 1, 2025, “State of labor is nothing to celebrate.” Working families deserve more than slogans; they require a clear understanding of what drives wages, opportunities, and dignity at work. Northwood University’s philosophy — which values individual freedom, personal responsibility, and...
Beginning in the 1970s, American Christians sensing a cultural shift engaged in a war of polemics with secularists like Madalyn Murray O’Hair over whether America was founded as a “Christian nation.” Over the last few years, this continuing controversy has diversified into something more niche: a debate over the threat, or promise, of “Christian nationalism.”...
For decades, economists and central bankers have relied more on the Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) than the headline CPI because Core CPI excludes volatile food and energy prices; this permits a clearer read on long-term inflation trends, which is critical for setting interest rates and guiding economic policy. Think of it like steering a...
Vietnam, a nation that still languishes under the thumb of a government with an avowed communist ideology, intends to become Asia’s next “tiger economy.” Ravaged by the civil war that split the country in two, and drew the United States into the sort of regional conflict that it had long sought to avoid, in 1975,...
Dr. Timothy G. Nash, Vice President, Emeritus, and Director of the Northwood University Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, recently shared helpful insight about the function of the Federal Reserve and the recent firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Dr. Nash’s expertise was captured in the following interview with Mike Austin on...
Artificial intelligence is here. It is learning fast, and it is already changing the ways we live our lives. For a lot of people, that change causes a lot of uncertainty when it comes to their careers. There is talk that AI is eliminating jobs, but that statement avoids the true impact: Artificial intelligence is...
This Independence Day, America’s Free Enterprise University marked an exciting milestone: Learners who complete The Philosophy of Free Enterprise, Northwood’s complimentary, self-paced online course, can now earn a Certificate of Completion. Launched in 2022, the course now offers 18 engaging lessons featuring easily digestible lectures about timeless free-market concepts, including the importance of limited government,...
The 2025 Northwood University Freedom Seminar will survey the two alternative paths that humanity tried over the past century: the road to serfdom and the road to freedom. The first was examined by the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek, who chose it as a title to a book that exposed the economic bankruptcy, political dangers,...
There is growing interest in socialist ideas, especially among college-age Americans. To be precise, 62% of young Americans between 18 and 29 years old have a favorable view of socialism, according to a 2025 survey by Cato Institute and YouGov. This makes Friedrich A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, a critique of the dangers of...
As a business professor, I strive to teach sound principles and practices, focusing on the benefits of productivity and value creation. I want my students pursuing business careers to be proud of their chosen profession. While business ethics is a topic worthy of classroom coverage and discussion, I do not view my role as one...
Tim Friede let venomous snakes bite him roughly 200 times, suffering anaphylactic shocks, and spending four days hospitalized in a coma. But this wasn’t a suicide attempt. He was seeking immunity to all snake venom, so that his blood could be used to create a universal antitoxin. The Centivax startup reports promising results from an...
The idea that people have an unalienable right to pursue their own happiness is a very radical idea. Prior to the eighteenth century, almost no one in the world believed it. Even today, only a small sliver of humankind agrees with it. Equally radical is the idea that the only purpose of government is to...