Taxpayer-money funneled through Operation Warp Speed played a role, but dozens of regulatory reforms deserve more of the credit for the rapid...
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June 16, 2021 | Weekly Newsletter

How to Make the COVID Vaccine Fast-Track the New Standard ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillian and Jonathan Hofer (The Hill)
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Taxpayer-money funneled through Operation Warp Speed played a role, but dozens of regulatory reforms deserve more of the credit for the rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccines. A light touch by regulators gave scientists more freedom to innovate quickly and allowed lifesaving drugs to reach consumers sooner. That is the lesson of the COVID-19 vaccine success story—and why these reforms should be made permanent. READ MORE » ([link removed])
New Way to CareSocial Protections that Put Families First ([link removed])
By John C. Goodman
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Anatomy of the Woke Madness: How Did Such Collective Madness Infect a Once Pragmatic and Commonsense America ([link removed])
By Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
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Pericles’s Funeral Oration, the Magna Carta, and the Declaration of Independence can be appreciated apart from race and gender. By contrast, wokeism twists every event of the past and present into a racial or gender litmus test, and thus a banality of oppressor and oppressed, as if history is always third-grade melodrama rather than complex tragedy. How about, instead, we revert to the norms of the civil rights movement—where the content of our character and the Constitution mattered, not the color of our skin or the psychobabble of a transgendering Red Guard? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Liberty in PerilDemocracy and Power in American History ([link removed])
By Randall G. Holcombe
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America Needs Private Investment—Not Public Infrastructure ([link removed])
By Benjamin Powell (The Hill)
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President Joe Biden is one step closer to a gluttonous infrastructure spending deal. The agreement would fund upgrades to government roads, bridges, and airports. But with a $2.3 trillion dollar price tag, the emerging deal is a bad investment for the United States, even if it is bipartisan. We should try the private sector for a change: better infrastructure, at greater quantity, faster—and for less money. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Street SmartCompetition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads ([link removed])
Edited by Gabriel Roth
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Should We Tax Rather than Subsidize Yale? ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes)
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A key question: who “owns” and ultimately determines major personnel and policies for colleges and universities? Is it right at so-called “private” schools generously subsidized by taxpayers for a few individuals not only to run the university but also to exclude deeply concerned tax-paying alumni? Some private schools like Yale act more like the British House of Lords—or Belarus—than like modern institutions amenable to change and responsiveness to the communities for which they serve. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Restoring the PromiseHigher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
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Winnipeg to Wuhan Mystery Deepens ([link removed])
By K. Lloyd Billingsley (The Epoch Times)
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Xiangguo Qiu, the former program director at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory who transferred deadly pathogens (Ebola, for example) to the U.S.-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology (thank you, Dr. Fauci) is missing from Winnipeg. So is her husband, Keding Cheng. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police won’t confirm or deny it knows where the couple is now. What else is the government of Canada hiding? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Crisis and LeviathanCritical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition) ([link removed])
By Robert Higgs
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The Beacon: New Blog Posts
* Tax Havens, or Intergovernmental Competition ([link removed]) , by Randall G. Holcombe
* Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Tops $400 Billion ([link removed]) , by Craig Eyermann
* Federal Judge Draws Fire for Striking Down California Assault Weapons Ban ([link removed]) , by K. Lloyd Billingsley
* Surveillance Going Postal–USPS’ Ever Growing Spy Role Expands to Internet Traffic ([link removed]) , by Jonathan Hofer
* New Alzheimer’s Drug Approval Could Change the FDA’s Approval Process for the Better ([link removed]) , by Raymond J. March
* Ending of a Needle Exchange Program Shows How Government is Addicted to Failure ([link removed]) , by Abigail R. Hall Blanco

Catalyst: New Articles
* The Compact That Preceded the Magna Carta ([link removed]) , by Lawrence W. Reed
* Will Texas Get a Fifth Large Metro? ([link removed]) , by Scott Beyer
* 5 Historic Examples of Foreign Aid Efforts Gone Wrong ([link removed]) , by Orestes R Betancourt Ponce de León


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