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...
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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...
September 29, 2021
God doesn’t need your good works (but your neighbor does)
In modern America, our view of vocation has become increasingly narrow and individualistic, focused only on economic action and our own preferred paths to self-actualization.
As David Brooks explains in his book The Road to Character, vocation is now mostly imagined as a journey of self-discovery and wish fulfillment, a way to satisfy inner longings so we can put up with the broken world around us. Continue Reading...
September 29, 2021
For religion to be national, it must first be personal
What does it mean for a nation to be Christian? Does the United States of America fit the description?
At its founding, the United States was undoubtedly a Christian nation. To foster a society of religious freedom and pluralism, the Founding Fathers intentionally did not establish a national religion and took care to separate the domains of church and state in the founding documents of our country. Continue Reading...
September 26, 2021
Cardinal Urosa: Venezuelan freedom fighter loses final battle against COVID-19
On Sept. 24, the Archdiocese of Caracas announced the passing Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Venezuela. The Sept. 24 press release stated he was “one of the most influential people” in a majority Roman Catholic nation ravished by a Marxist political economy, widespread military corruption, and abject poverty. Continue Reading...
