Child Safety Accounts (CSAs) empower parents to quickly transfer their harassed children to the safe school of their choice.

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February 4, 2020 | Weekly Newsletter

Empower Parents to Shield Students from Bullying ([link removed])
By Vicki E. Alger and Tim Benson (The Detroit News, 1/22/20)
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Child Safety Accounts (CSAs) empower parents to quickly transfer their harassed children to the safe school of their choice. With incidents of bullying continuing to make headline news, CSAs are an idea whose time has come. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Failure The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children ([link removed])
By Vicki E. Alger
Should You Vote? The Answer Isn’t as Obvious as You Might Think ([link removed])
By Art Carden (Forbes, 1/31/20)
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Contrary to popular wisdom, your vote does not count—at least not in any mathematically valid way. It’s more accurate to say that voting has value as a civic ritual, a sacramental rite in the secular religion of American democracy. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Beyond Politics (Revised and Updated Edition) The Roots of Government Failure ([link removed])
By Randy Simmons
Mexico’s ‘Tropical Messiah’ Browbeats Critics and Bullies the Press ([link removed])
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa (The Wall Street Journal, 1/22/20)
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Populist leaders uses anti-elitist rhetoric to enhance their messianic appeal with the people and to undermine checks and balances by concentrating power. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador fits the populist mold, but whether he will ultimately succeed in governing as he wishes is another matter. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Liberty for Latin America How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression ([link removed])
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Clayton M. Christensen, R.I.P. ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes, 1/28/20)
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Scholar, author, and visionary, the late Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen was the prophet of “disruptive innovation” who foresaw progress where lesser lights predicted only the stagnation of the status quo. His thinking about the transformative power of innovation in higher education may prove to be his most significant prophecy. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
Trump Is Working in a Continuation of a Long and Dangerous Trend ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland (The Sun, 1/29/20)
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President Trump has astonishingly declared, “Article II (of the U.S. Constitution) gives me the right to do whatever I want.” Although this notion is patently false, it’s true that the power of the presidency has grown precipitously and recklessly since the founding era, largely because Congress has shirked its constitutional duties and relinquished power to the executive. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] War and the Rogue Presidency Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland
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* Capitalism: Getting Ahead and Staying Ahead ([link removed]) , by Randall G. Holcombe
* Resisting California’s Two-One Punch Against Liberty ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* American Democracy as a Fundamentalist Religion ([link removed]) , by James A. Montanye
* Trump Administration Finds That Deregulation Is Getting Harder and Harder ([link removed]) , by Craig Eyermann

Catalyst: New Articles
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