When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks...
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September 30, 2021 | Weekly Newsletter
The Symptoms of Our Insanity ([link removed])
By Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
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Think for a minute. When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys? Did anyone just five years ago believe the following could possibly happen in America—and invoke almost no popular outrage from a somnolent public? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Liberty in Peril Democracy and Power in American History ([link removed])
By Randall G. Holcombe
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Codevilla, Courage, and COVID ([link removed])
By K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Thinker)
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Angelo Codevilla (Senior Fellow, Independent Institute), a man of “remarkable intellect and insights,” passed away this month after a long and productive career. In recent years, Codevilla watched as the ruling class morphed into an all-out oligarchy, As he explained last May, “the exercise of coercive powers by and for self-selected elites who claim to know better and who validate one another is the very negation of the constitutional republic within which Americans have lived since 1776. It is oligarchy.” And in his response to the pandemic, Codevilla might have saved the best for last. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Crisis and Leviathan Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition) ([link removed])
By Robert Higgs
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New Ruling Hinders the Search for Truth in Sexual Assault Cases ([link removed])
By Ronald L. Trowbridge (The Hill)
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On July 28, U.S. District Judge William G. Young ruled against mandatory cross-examination by colleges investigating sexual assault cases on grounds that it is capricious. Pursuant to that ruling, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education, Suzanne B. Goldberg, declared on Aug. 24 that the Office for Civil Rights will no longer enforce mandatory cross-examination rules in postsecondary sexual assault cases. Is that position fair to either accuser or accused? READ MORE » ([link removed])
In All Fairness Equality, Liberty, and the Quest for Human Dignity ([link removed])
Edited by Christopher J. Coyne, Michael C. Munger, Robert M. Whaples
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Riches and Rankings: Washington U’s Soaring Endowment ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes)
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Washington University in St. Louis had an astonishing 65% rate of return on investments in their endowment in the 2020-2021 academic year. News reports suggest high returns at many other schools, too. One generalization holds: a large majority of the top schools in all Forbes college rankings are private institutions with large endowments. Money seems to buy better students via bigger scholarships, and more prestigious professors. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
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Now Is the Time to Reign in Excessive Executive Power ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland (The National Interest)
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The Biden administration claims to support reforms that would restore badly damaged presidential guardrails and norms. However, reports are that the White House is dragging its feet on the restriction of presidential emergency powers and the facilitation of enforcement of congressional subpoenas against the executive (and probably other proposed reforms as well), with the possibility of a loss of one or more houses of Congress to the Republicans in 2022 looming over the latter objection. However, it is no exaggeration to state that the republic has been imperiled by decades of executive corruption and aggrandizement at the expense of the other branches of government. READ MORE » ([link removed])
War and the Rogue Presidency Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland
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