The Lighthouse®
The new national pastime on the progressive left? Lying about American history—especially in schools and colleges where students are an impressionable captive audience. Think the 1619 project. But, if we are such a horrible place, why do the immigrants, legal and illegal, keep coming?
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Tim Shampling (City Journal)
University-imposed DEI statements are either vapid generalities—around which everybody dances a dishonest pantomime—or else they are ideological truncheons fatal to both free speech and scholarship. Increasingly, it’s the latter. Such institutions become little more than progressive sects with lab space. What can be done? (And why did this writer have to use a pseudonym?)
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Adam B. Summers (Orange County Register)
Does CA Proposition 29, which would impose unnecessary regulations on the dialysis industry, sound familiar? It should. It’s the third such measure in five years. And, thanks to the union pushing it, it is no less odious than the union’s prior two attempts.
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Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke (National Review)
Indebted lower-income countries (LICs) have, seemingly, only two options—suffer the IMF or kowtow to communist China, now one of the world’s leading creditors. But, as a distressed Bulgaria discovered, these twin debt traps can be avoided. Monetary reform and market discipline are the answers.
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Volume 25, Issue 43: October 25, 2022
Richard K. Vedder (Minding the Campus)
The new national pastime on the progressive left? Lying about American history—especially in schools and colleges where students are an impressionable captive audience. Think the 1619 project. But, if we are such a horrible place, why do the immigrants, legal and illegal, keep coming?
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Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to the 1619 Project
The Independent Review, Spring 2022
Tim Shampling (City Journal)
University-imposed DEI statements are either vapid generalities—around which everybody dances a dishonest pantomime—or else they are ideological truncheons fatal to both free speech and scholarship. Increasingly, it’s the latter. Such institutions become little more than progressive sects with lab space. What can be done? (And why did this writer have to use a pseudonym?)
READ MORE »
Adam B. Summers (Orange County Register)
Does CA Proposition 29, which would impose unnecessary regulations on the dialysis industry, sound familiar? It should. It’s the third such measure in five years. And, thanks to the union pushing it, it is no less odious than the union’s prior two attempts.
READ MORE »Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke (National Review)
Indebted lower-income countries (LICs) have, seemingly, only two options—suffer the IMF or kowtow to communist China, now one of the world’s leading creditors. But, as a distressed Bulgaria discovered, these twin debt traps can be avoided. Monetary reform and market discipline are the answers.
READ MORE »
The Midas Paradox
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
By Scott Sumner
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- Breaking Down the National Debt, by Craig Eyermann
- Are You Voting for a Candidate or a Political Party?, by Randall G. Holcombe
- School Choice Milestone Calls for New Approach, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy, by Raymond J. March
- California’s Proposition 1 Is Perverse Virtue-Signaling, by Mary L. G. Theroux
- Social Security’s 8.7% COLA Will Protect Retirees From Inflation, but Will Hasten Program’s Insolvency, by Rachel Greszler
Catalyst: New Articles
- History’s First Libertarian?, by Jon Miltimore
- Two Cheers for Approval of New OC Desalination Plant, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Bernanke’s Nobel effect, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
