Northwood University is hosting economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), for a Sept. 30 Freedom Seminar lecture about modern parallels to the fall of Rome in Griswold Lecture Hall. Reed, a longtime champion of liberty and former Northwood economics professor, will explore the causes of Ancient...
According to experts, the best way to maintain a new habit is to track it. I’ve recently taken up running. And as runners typically do, I’m now hooked on tracking my distance, measuring my pace, and setting goals to get better. Naturally, this sent me down the rabbit hole of finding the best tracking device....
Constitution Day marks the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787 — a framework that limits government, secures rights, and creates the rule-of-law. It is an environment in which entrepreneurial activity can flourish. In that spirit, Northwood University is inviting students, alumni, educators, business leaders, and the broader community to deepen their understanding...
For the first time in Gallup’s 90-year polling history, a majority of Americans now view moderate alcohol consumption as bad for one’s health. Just 54 percent of American adults say they drink alcohol, and 49 percent tell pollsters they’d like to cut back in 2025. In particular, Gen-Z seems to have gotten the memo on...
All is fare in love and war. That’s not a typo—anything can be sold, even and especially during a trade war. In the unfolding drama of the US–China economic rivalry, a fragile ceasefire has emerged, not through diplomacy, but through mutual dependency. In the midst of heavy US transshipping tariffs—aimed at China, and hitting the...
Dr. Timothy G. Nash, who leads the Northwood University Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, recently discussed the consumer price index, inflation, new jobs, and more with Mike Austin on WILS. .
Charlie Kirk is dead. That is not a sentence I ever imagined writing, certainly not in 2025. He leaves behind a devoted wife as well as two young children, who will grow up in a world without their father. Charlie Kirk was the founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student activist group, and host...
Sinologists speak of the “Four Great Inventions” of China. The infamous “one-child policy” is not one of them; that is a political contrivance of more recent times and is producing a demographic catastrophe (see The Ultimate Central Planning Nightmare). The Four Great Inventions are the compass, paper, printing, and gunpowder. They date to ancient times,...
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,...