Liberty
Saying No to the ‘COVID Regime’
Brady Leonard writes for the Washington Examiner about why we should “just say no.” We are still 434 days out from the 2024 presidential election, but that is not stopping…
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Liberty
Checking on Left-Wing City Governments That Offered Free Money
Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner reports on progressive city governments that paid residents for doing nothing in particular. Once the provenance of policy wonks and tech entrepreneurs, universal basic…
Liberty
Rushdie’s Link to Decline of Western Civilization
Stanley Kurtz of National Review Online places the recent attack on writer Salman Rushdie in perspective. Salman Rushdie is just off a ventilator, likely to lose an eye, body pierced,…
Health Care
Certificate of Need in North Carolina
Executive Summary North Carolina is one of 35 states with a Certificate of Need (CON) program, a law requiring health providers to obtain the permission of a state board before…
Elections & Public Integrity
Boston columnist claims Warren candidacy will make Trump’s day
Howie Carr explains in a Boston Herald column why he believes U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid could end up helping Donald Trump. Consider her own words — the statement…
Elections & Public Integrity
America’s five political ‘tribes’
Carl Cannon writes for Real Clear Politics about distinct groups of American voters. Today, slightly more than one-fourth of registered voters in the United States have political views and social…
Education
Park your brain outside Harvard Yard
Elizabeth Harrington‘s latest Washington Free Beacon report on campus kookiness involves the denizens of Cambridge, Mass. A group of Harvard graduate students are starting a “resistance school” to oppose President…
Regulation
Fund explores the taxi industry’s efforts to block a technology-driven competitor
John Fund‘s latest National Review Online column delves into the taxi industry’s opposition to Uber. Uber and Lyft are straight out of the “creative destruction” model that economist Joseph Schumpeter…
Regulation
A Harvard education … about the ability of regulation to stamp out technological innovation
Timothy Carney has a brief blurb for the Washington Examiner that offers a clear example of the negative impact of overregulation. Regulators in Harvard’s hometown have proposed new regulations aimed…
Liberty
Historian Gordon sings Silent Cal’s praises
John Steele Gordon explains for Commentary magazine’s online readers how our current president’s political predicaments might have been avoided had he followed the example of Calvin Coolidge. As Roger L.…
Education
Another hole in the forced busing argument
View in your browser. Welcome As the Wake County Board of Education considers changes to their student assignment plan, a new study suggests that they should think twice about making…
Liberty
Sometimes silence is golden
University of Chicago Law Professor Richard Epstein provides this analysis of the Gates/Crowley controversy in Forbes. His conclusion: In these circumstances, it was ungracious for Obama to damn Crowley by…