by Joakim Book | Aug 19, 2020 | Books, Environment
Joakim Book contrasts and compares Bjorn Lomborg’s “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”, Michael Shellenberger’s “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All”, and Christopher Barnard and Kai Weiss’ edited book “Green Market Revolution: How Market Environmentalism Can Protect Nature and Save the World.”
by Walter Williams | Aug 19, 2020 | Education
Americans need to pay attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited to higher education.
by John Stossel | Aug 19, 2020 | Elections
Historically, Democrats moved left during the primaries, and then back toward the center once nominated. Not this time. Biden’s people met with Bernie Sanders’ staff and concocted a grotesque orgy of spending.
by Adam Mossoff | Aug 19, 2020 | Intellectual Property
Trump has been a champion of protecting U.S. innovators from the theft of their inventions by foreign countries, such as China. However, his executive order takes the U.S. in the wrong direction. It would import not just foreign price controls, but also weaker foreign patent systems.
by Raymond C. Niles | Aug 14, 2020 | Business
The impending takedown of TikTok sets a dangerous precedent. It marks a serious diminution of the rule of law and a major step-up in the authoritarian use of power by our executive branch.
by Larry Elder | Aug 13, 2020 | POLITICS
The most serious “inequality” is the unequal percentage of fathers in Black households, a phenomenon that has been encouraged by government policies that normalize and reward out-of-wedlock births.
by John Stossel | Aug 11, 2020 | Racism
Both white supremacists and anti-racists believe “race is an immutable attribute of who we are.”
by Institute for Justice | Aug 11, 2020 | Regulation
Seattle’s ironically-named ‘Housing Affordability’ law makes renovating a modest home prohibitively expensive for middle-income homeowners.
by Phillip W. Magness | Aug 10, 2020 | History
Similarities between slavery and socialism, and indeed the aggressive anti-capitalist rhetoric of proslavery ideology, are seldom examined in the “New History of Capitalism” literature.