The difference between a “Christian organization” and an “organization that does Christian things” might seem like a distinction without a difference. But it is precisely this difference that is at the heart of the question presented to the U.S. Continue Reading...
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October 11, 2021
University of Hong Kong demands Tiananmen Square Massacre memorial statue be forcibly removed from campus grounds
The University of Hong Kong requested that members of a prominent but now-disbanded social rights group remove from campus grounds its famous statue, the Pillar of Shame, which pays tribute to victims in Beijing’s violent crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Continue Reading...
October 09, 2021
Rising to the challenges of ‘so-so automation’
Fears about job loss and human obsolescence continue to consume the cultural imagination, compounded by ongoing strides in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The job-killing robots are almost at the door, we are told, mere moments away from replacing the last traces of human inefficiency and heralding the dawn of a world without work. Continue Reading...
October 08, 2021
Hold internet companies responsible for content on their platforms, not just the government
Frances Haugen’s recent whistleblower testimony regarding Facebook will only stoke the fires of the battle heating up in courts and legislatures over provisions originally addressed in Rule 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Continue Reading...
October 07, 2021
Civil rights leader pleads not guilty to charges related to Tiananmen Square Massacre vigil
The former vice chair of a now-disbanded civil rights group, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which also organizes the annual Tiananmen Square vigil, pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting others to take part in this year’s banned vigil. Continue Reading...
October 06, 2021
Books offer stability, renewal of American ideals
Long after we’ve all passed on, how will future generations remember us?
One answer: books.
Certainly there will be landmarks and buildings and other memorabilia that help our descendants understand our society as it exists today, along with the people who helped shape it. Continue Reading...
October 04, 2021
Six former Next Digital employees to be tried in Hong Kong High Court to face possible life sentences
The deliberate shredding of Hong Kong’s democratic ideals continues as the case against six former employees of Next Digital and its subsidiary Apple Daily is to be transferred to the Hong Kong High Court, where guilty verdicts can result in life sentences, it was announced on Sept. Continue Reading...
October 01, 2021
Hong Kong government petitions to dissolve Next Digital Media Group
On Sept. 29, the Hong Kong government, led by financial secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, petitioned the court of First Instance to push for the folding of Next Digital Media Group.
Although the power to liquidate the 40-year-old firm is already granted by the Companies Ordinance, Chan argued that shutting the doors of the media company is also in the public’s interest. Continue Reading...
October 01, 2021
Free trade with China is still good for us all
Doug Irwin in his seminal book Free Trade Under Fire points out that Democrats and Republicans have historically vacillated on free trade. The Democratic Party of the late 19th century up until World War II was the party of trade liberalization when Republicans consistently voted for high tariffs. Continue Reading...
September 29, 2021
Next Digital headquarters raided by Hong Kong government
Clement Chan Kam-wing, an inspector appointed by the Hong Kong government, raided the headquarters of Next Digital media company in a search and seizure of financial records on Sept. 28 as part of an investigation into the company. Continue Reading...