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^{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics

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The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

_{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics

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As cities in the United States, including San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle, consider opening their own safe-injection sites, they should understand the full consequences of these practices. Read More ›

^{Gary N. Smith
July 16, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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Election Models: Predicting the Past is Easy — and Useless

_{Gary N. Smith
July 16, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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I told my students that I had a model that predicted the popular vote for the last ten presidential elections (1980–2016) perfectly. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020
Economics

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Cult Programming in Seattle

_{Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020
Economics

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Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.” Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism

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The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism

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Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

^{Bill Walton
July 3, 2020
Economics

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The Bill Walton Show: Reality Economics 101 with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny

_{Bill Walton
July 3, 2020
Economics

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On this week's episode of The Bill Walton Show, Discovery Senior Fellow Bill Walton has a wide ranging conversation about all things economic with Donald Boudreaux, best-selling author, professor of economics at George Mason University who writes the popular blog Cafe Hayek and John Tamny, editor of Real Clear Markets, an editor for Forbes Magazine and the author of “The End of Work” and “They’re Both Wrong.” Even if, or maybe especially, you think economics is too abstract or arcane or harsh, this is a fresh and engaging take that everyone can learn from. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 2, 2020
Economics

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The End of Chaz

_{Christopher Rufo
July 2, 2020
Economics

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Early this morning, a phalanx of Seattle police officers, armed with long batons and semiautomatic rifles, cleared out the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Seattle can now begin to reckon with the damage. Read More ›

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^{Scott S. Powell
June 27, 2020
Economics

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Washington’s Prophetic Warning

_{Scott S. Powell
June 27, 2020
Economics

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President Trump paid tribute to George Washington when he recently delivered the 2020 convocation speech at West Point. He missed an opportunity to mention that Washington’s “Farewell Address” was a warning to the nation that America’s greatest threat would be internal, rather than external military incursions. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Economics

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Antifa Makes Its Move

_{Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Economics

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Behind the scenes, antifa has done the unthinkable: establish political power in major American cities. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Economics

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Counsel of the Woke

_{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Economics

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America has reached an epistemological breaking point. Read More ›

^{Bill Walton
June 17, 2020
Economics

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The Bill Walton Show: The True Human Costs of Government Imposed Lockdowns with Jim Agresti

_{Bill Walton
June 17, 2020
Economics

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Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world. Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Economics

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The State of CHAZ

_{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Economics

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The new state of CHAZ has evolved. Over the past week, left-wing protesters have transformed the surrounding neighborhood into the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), hoping to create a new political authority based on social-justice principles. Read More ›

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^{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education

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The Source of the Problem

_{Donald Nielsen
June 15, 2020
Education

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Racism and police brutality are one source of the problems we are facing today, but those problems have been exacerbated by government’s failure to demand excellence in the performance of their employees and their leadership. Read More ›