“Cancel culture” has just removed the racist President Woodrow Wilson and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from Progressive...

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August 19, 2020 | Weekly Newsletter

Even as They Cancel Each Other, Progressives Continue to Downplay Their Movement’s Racist Past ([link removed])
By Thomas F. Cargill (Washington Examiner, 8/13/20)
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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. READ MORE » ([link removed])

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TikTok of the Election Clock Explains Trump’s Actions Against China ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland (Inside Sources, 8/7/20)
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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 » ([link removed])

[link removed] War and the Rogue Presidency Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland
America’s Surprising Recovery after V-J Day ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (The Wall Street Journal, 8/14/20)
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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 » ([link removed])

[link removed] Out of Work Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America ([link removed])
By Lowell E. Gallaway, Richard K. Vedder
California Ballot Contains Four Unconstitutional Propositions ([link removed])
By Ronald L. Trowbridge (The Hill, 8/16/20)
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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 » ([link removed])

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Turkey in the Era of ‘Sultan Erdogan’ ([link removed])
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Issues & Insights, 7/30/20)
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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. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Global Crossings Immigration, Civilization, and America ([link removed])
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
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* Different Dread from the Fed ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
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* F. A. Hayek and the Coronomics Crisis ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics ([link removed]) , by Mary L. G. Theroux
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