Paper strip testing kits could make it safer for more employees to return to the workplace, for diners to eat in restaurants, and for college...

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August 25, 2020 | Weekly Newsletter

Why Has the FDA Not Approved Home-Based Coronavirus Testing? ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman (Forbes, 8/10/20)
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Paper strip testing kits could make it safer for more employees to return to the workplace, for diners to eat in restaurants, and for college students to go back to campus. Although they lack the sensitivity of the standard PCR swab tests currently in use, paper strip tests would promote the key goal of public health: lowering the risk of transmission. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] A Better Choice Healthcare Solutions for America ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman
The Crisis in Civil Rights: Best Books and Articles on Race, Police, and the Welfare State ([link removed])
By Williamson M. Evers (8/18/20)
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To make rapid progress on the issues of civil rights, police reform, race relations, and the welfare state, Americans must acquire—and act on—a deeper shared understanding of the wisdom and findings of scholars in the fields of history, economics, law, and political philosophy. A new and comprehensive annotated reading list on these topics draws on America’s heritage of individual rights, equality under the law, free markets, and freedom of opportunity. READ MORE » ([link removed])

* Readings on Anti-Semitism ([link removed])
* Readings on Police Reform ([link removed])
* Readings on Poverty and the Welfare State ([link removed])
* Readings on Race and Civil Rights ([link removed])

Split Roll Tax Measure Would Harm Vulnerable Californians ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillan and Douglas E. Koehler (The Orange County Register, 8/3/20)
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California voters this November will decide whether or not to assess commercial and industrial property differently than residential property for the purpose of increasing property tax revenues. The so-called split-roll measure—Proposition 15—would benefit police interests, cause property owners and businesses to pass on higher costs to consumers, and unfairly funnel billions of dollars into underfunded, poorly structured public-employee pensions. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] California Dreaming Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillan
Feinstein’s Courtship of Communist China ([link removed])
By K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Thinker, 8/15/20)
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has been quicker to defend China’s status as a U.S. trade partner than to criticize Beijing for human rights abuses. Her diplomatic evasions continue as Chinese mask-maker BYD pursues a defamation lawsuit against VICE Media Group for a story claiming the company has “ties to the Chinese military and Communist Party, and possible links to forced labor.” READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] China’s Great Migration How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation ([link removed])
By Bradley M. Gardner
Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators! ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes, 8/3/20)
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College bureaucrats make more decisions than the faculty, but most school administrators are not academics, and many don’t cherish academic values such as a quest for knowledge, discovery of new truths, and a passion for civil discussion and debate. Nor are the highest paid college administrators suffering layoffs in anywhere near the same rate or degree as faculty, secretarial, janitorial, and related personnel. READ MORE » ([link removed])

[link removed] Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
* California Bullet Train Bridge a “Horrible Sequence of Mistakes” ([link removed]) , by Craig Eyermann
* California’s Delta Water Tunnel Is a $15.9 Billion Money Pit ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Antiwar Message of The Dawn Patrol Still Resonates 82 Years Later ([link removed]) , by Samuel R. Staley
* California “Energy Czar” Failed to Prevent New Round of Power Blackouts ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Cancel Culture as Collectivist Fragility ([link removed]) , by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
* Play Ball! ([link removed]) , by Randall G. Holcombe

Catalyst: New Articles
* Immigration, Migration, and the Naiveté of Nativism ([link removed]) , by Lawrence J. McQuillan
* Will Small Businesses Stay Closed Post-Pandemic? ([link removed]) , by Luka Ladan
* Not All Environmental Activism Is the Same ([link removed]) , by Scott Beyer
* COVID-19 Is Disrupting the Future of Higher Education ([link removed]) , by Ben Wilterdink


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