Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and dissident, says he would gladly be arrested again, because advocating for human freedom is part of his character. And until China respects the freedom embedded in human nature, peace will not return to his formerly free province – or the world. Continue Reading...
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August 14, 2020
Against idols of success: from self-indulgence to creative service
Propelled by an expansion in economic opportunity and the resounding cultural call to “follow your passion,” we increasingly imagine our work through lenses of calling, vocation, and “meaning-making.” From there, the competing philosophies of life abound. Continue Reading...
August 14, 2020
Trump, Fauci, and economists cannot escape morality
This article has been retracted at the mutual agreement of the author and the publisher. Continue Reading...
August 12, 2020
Acton Line podcast: Rise of the national conservatives with Matthew Continetti
The conservative movement in America has always been evolving. From the old right of the progressive era to the conservative intellectual movement identified with William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review to the Reagan revolution to today, the political right in America has changed with the challenges it has faced and with the context of the times in which it has existed. Continue Reading...
August 12, 2020
New York AG takes aim at the NRA and the rule of law
The attorney general of New York state, Letitia James, fired a shot across the bow of the National Rifle Association last week, filing a lawsuit to “dissolve” the nation’s largest gun rights organization “in its entirety.” Continue Reading...
August 12, 2020
Cuba loosens restrictions on private businesses to battle COVID-19
Over the past decade, Cuba’s private sector has experienced slow-but-steady growth thanks to a mix of entrepreneurial grit and incremental policy changes. Although the Communist government continues to waffle on the scope and duration of various restrictions, the number of self-employed Cubans has risen from 150,000 to 600,000 since 2010 – that is, until the outbreak of the global health pandemic. Continue Reading...
August 11, 2020
What’s behind the Beirut explosion? Corruption ‘greater than the state’
On Monday, the Lebanese government resigned. Public pressure on the government had been relentless in the wake of two devastating explosions on the afternoon of August 4 at the port in the nation’s capital city, Beirut. Continue Reading...
August 10, 2020
Pro-democracy media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai arrested in Hong Kong
Hong Kong-based media entrepreneur and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was arrested by police in Hong Kong on the morning of Monday, August 10. Lai has been charged with “collusion with foreign powers,” according to Next Digital executive and Lai’s aide Mark Simon. Continue Reading...
August 07, 2020
Reviving Native American economies through dignity, property, and personhood
“Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself – and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.” Continue Reading...
August 07, 2020
Population bust fueled COVID-19 spread: Study
The onslaught of the coronavirus global pandemic suspended the normal working of the economy, but it proved two less-noted truths: The family affects everything, including the economy; and a rising population saves lives. Continue Reading...