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1. Spreading the news on the state of economic freedom

   Appeared in The American Thinker, December 18, 2016 The Fraser Institute has released its 12th edition of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA), which ranks and compares the levels of economic freedom across North America and within the U.S., ...

2. Best Practices in Distributing and Promoting EFNA

   Appeared in Fraser Insight, July 2016 Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity and growth, and the evidence shows that states with low levels of economic freedom reduce the ability of their citizens to prosper economically. The Fraser ...

3. The Full Measure of Freedom

   Appeared in American Outlook, Winter 2015 The Fraser Institute has embarked on an ambitious and important effort to create a comprehensive index of human freedom. As a trailblazer in the study and measurement of economic freedom, the Fraser Institute has ...

4. The Retreat of Economic Freedom Continues

   Appeared in The American Thinker, December 22, 2015 The self-styled “land of the free” is not as free as it once was—or as we in the United States think of ourselves. But don’t take my word for it. The U.S. ranks 16th in the Fraser Institute’s latest ...

5. Economic Freedom and the Building Blocks of Prosperity and Stability

   Appeared in the American Thinker, November 6, 2015 For almost 20 years, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World report has highlighted the many benefits of economic freedom: more prosperity, faster and more sustained economic growth, higher ...

6. The importance of cyber-security to liberty

   We all know the Internet was designed not with security in mind, but rather openness and the free flow of information. This has been beneficial for liberty. The no-barrier, global, connected nature of the Internet has brought ...

7. Cyber-Liberty Depends on Cyber-Security

   Appeared in The American Thinker My colleagues at the Fraser Institute have just published a report examining the issue of cyber-security from an underappreciated but crucial perspective, namely, the importance of cyber-security to liberty. We all know ...

8. Cybersecurity Challenges for Canada and the United States

   The Internet was designed not with security in mind, but rather openness and the free flow of information. The resulting globally connected Internet has brought unprecedented levels of information and commercial exchange, contributed enormous gains to ...

9. Time to pay NATO’s insurance premiums

   Appeared in the National Post As Russian military assets continue to pick apart Ukraine, we should be thankful the transatlantic community didn’t cash in its Cold War-era insurance policy. To extend the metaphor, NATO’s political leaders have a lot of ...

10. Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

    Appeared in The Independent Review, Summer 2014 Without an objective measure of freedom, it is impossible to determine whether an action leads to increases or decreases in freedom, whether it lends stability to freedom or causes instability, or whether ...