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“Cancel culture” has just removed the racist President Woodrow Wilson and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the gallery of Progressive icons. This overdue development, however, doesn’t mean that today’s Progressives have come clean about their movement’s racist past.
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By Ivan Eland (Inside Sources, 8/7/20)
President Trump’s claim that the Chinese-owned TikTok app is a security threat to the United States is absurd. Even if he allows Microsoft to buy the popular video-sharing platform, this still wouldn’t allay concerns that the president’s stance toward China is less about national security than about trying to get himself re-elected.
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By Richard K. Vedder (The Wall Street Journal, 8/14/20)
Many Americans expected the ending of World War II to result in a period of prolonged high unemployment, diminished output, and business failures caused by the rapid decline in federal spending for the wartime economy. But rather than experiencing a new Great Depression, the U.S. economy underwent economic renewal as labor and capital quickly transitioned to peacetime production for the civilian sector.
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By Ronald L. Trowbridge (The Hill, 8/16/20)
Three propositions on California’s November ballot would violate our constitutional right to private property. A fourth would violate the individual’s right to nondiscrimination.
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By Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Issues & Insights, 7/30/20)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—Turkey’s strongman—has fully earned a place beside China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a poster boy for modern-day imperialist ambition. Without a vibrant, growing economy, Erdogan won’t be able to carry out his grand plan to lead Western Asia, Southeastern Europe and North Africa, but this won’t stop him from creating problems in countries such as Libya and Syria.
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Volume 22, Issue 32: August 19, 2020
By Thomas F. Cargill (Washington Examiner, 8/13/20)
“Cancel culture” has just removed the racist President Woodrow Wilson and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the gallery of Progressive icons. This overdue development, however, doesn’t mean that today’s Progressives have come clean about their movement’s racist past.
READ MORE »
By Ivan Eland (Inside Sources, 8/7/20)
President Trump’s claim that the Chinese-owned TikTok app is a security threat to the United States is absurd. Even if he allows Microsoft to buy the popular video-sharing platform, this still wouldn’t allay concerns that the president’s stance toward China is less about national security than about trying to get himself re-elected.
READ MORE »
By Richard K. Vedder (The Wall Street Journal, 8/14/20)
Many Americans expected the ending of World War II to result in a period of prolonged high unemployment, diminished output, and business failures caused by the rapid decline in federal spending for the wartime economy. But rather than experiencing a new Great Depression, the U.S. economy underwent economic renewal as labor and capital quickly transitioned to peacetime production for the civilian sector.
READ MORE »
Out of Work
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
By Richard K. Vedder, Lowell E. Gallaway
By Ronald L. Trowbridge (The Hill, 8/16/20)
Three propositions on California’s November ballot would violate our constitutional right to private property. A fourth would violate the individual’s right to nondiscrimination.
READ MORE »By Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Issues & Insights, 7/30/20)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—Turkey’s strongman—has fully earned a place beside China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a poster boy for modern-day imperialist ambition. Without a vibrant, growing economy, Erdogan won’t be able to carry out his grand plan to lead Western Asia, Southeastern Europe and North Africa, but this won’t stop him from creating problems in countries such as Libya and Syria.
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The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- What’s Wrong With the “Fix Your Own Government” Argument Opposing Immigration?, by Lawrence J. McQuillan
- Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Spreading Affinity for Socialism? It Shouldn’t!, by Raymond J. March
- Personal Freedom and Liberty Anchor Brave New World, by Samuel R. Staley
- Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political Power, by Randall G. Holcombe
- Different Dread from the Fed, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Where There’s a Will There’s a Won’t: A COVID-Related Tale of Bureaucracy, by James A. Montanye
- Paycheck Protection Program a Costly Mess, by Craig Eyermann
- F. A. Hayek and the Coronomics Crisis, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, by Mary L. G. Theroux
- Kamala Harris and the Bridge to No Accountability, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
