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...
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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...
August 05, 2020
Acton Line podcast: Critiquing the 1619 Project with Phil Magness
Since debuting in the New York Times Magazine on August 14, 2019, the 1619 Project has ignited a debate about American history, the founding of the country and the legacy emanating from the nation’s history with chattel slavery. Continue Reading...
August 04, 2020
Why do we embrace ‘cancel culture’?
Online disagreements, and even unintended slips, can end a person’s career. One stray word is all it takes to turn a hero into a pariah. What lies behind the hair-trigger we have placed on the reflex to “cancel” others? Continue Reading...
August 04, 2020
Fake friends: the dangers of the internet mob
In his memoir, Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner reflects on the social climate that characterized Nazi Germany. In particular, he describes how “[the Nazis had] made all Germans everywhere into comrades.” Continue Reading...
July 31, 2020
6 quotes: Milton Friedman on woke capitalism, racism, and equality
Milton Friedman was born on July 31, 1912. His work in pioneering monetary theory at the University of Chicago would win him the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1976 and popularize a new school of free-market economics, “The Chicago School.” Continue Reading...
