As the long year of 2021 finally came to a close, American Leftists found themselves privately acknowledging, but unable to utter, a number...
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January 6, 2022 | Weekly Newsletter

The Truths We Dared Not Speak in 2021 ([link removed])
Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
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As the long year of 2021 finally came to a close, American Leftists found themselves privately acknowledging, but unable to utter, a number of inconvenient truths. Like: the free cash you get from the government is the very reason you can’t afford anything. Also: a crime wave with no criminals is impossible. And: his birth certificate says he’s 78, but Biden is, at best, 95. As 2022 advances, it will become impossible to hide these facts. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Beyond Politics ([link removed])
The Roots of Government Failure (Revised and Updated Edition) ([link removed])
By Randy Simmons
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The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health ([link removed])
By Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff (The Epoch Times)
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The Great Barrington Declaration ([link removed]) was based on the one necessary fact about COVID: the old have a more than thousand-fold higher risk of death than our youth. Also at risk? The immune-compromised. No need for lockdowns, then; and our schools should have stayed open. Disagreeing, Francis Collins (Director, NIH) and Anthony Fauci (Director, NIAID) secretly attempted a “takedown” of the Declaration. It was authored, they said, by “three fringe epidemiologists.” But since when are Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford “fringe”? And by what possible standard can we say Collins’s and Fauci’s measures have proven beneficial? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Crisis and Leviathan ([link removed])
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition) ([link removed])
By Robert Higgs
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What Will the U.S. Supreme Court Decide? ([link removed])
By Stephen P. Halbrook (America’s 1st Freedom)
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On November 3, 2021, the highly anticipated oral arguments in the landmark case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen took place before the U.S. Supreme Court—and the gun-control advocates can’t be happy. New York is trying to limit the exercise of the Second Amendment to “atypical people” approved by the government. But, as many of the Justices wanted to know, how can a constitutional right be exercised by too many people? READ MORE » ([link removed])
The Right to Bear Arms ([link removed])
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? ([link removed])
By Stephen P. Halbrook
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A Farewell Assessment: Higher Education after Six Decades ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder (Forbes)
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How has higher education changed over the past six decades? It’s not pretty. Real teaching, particularly by tenured faculty, is rare. We also expect less of our college kids but reward them more (a.k.a. grade inflation). At the big universities, at which most Americans matriculate, athletics, not academics, dominate the imagination and therefore university budgets. And then, thanks to the distorting influence of the federal government, there is the student-loan catastrophe. What is to be done? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Restoring the Promise ([link removed])
Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
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Say What? The Ethnic Irony of Spielberg’s West Side Story ([link removed])
Samuel R. Staley (Washington Times)
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Steven Spielberg’s recent reprise of the 1961 film, West Side Story, is a cinematic masterpiece. Why, then, is it flopping? For “woke” reasons, Spielberg chose to not provide subtitles when the Puerto Rican characters speak Spanish. The film, as a result, is inaccessible to just those English-only persons (read: most of the country) Spielberg presumably wants to reach with the main message (the tragic consequences of irrational prejudice). READ MORE » ([link removed])
Race & Liberty in America ([link removed])
The Essential Reader ([link removed])
Edited by Jonathan J. Bean
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Packing Away the Constitution ([link removed])
By Gary M. Galles (AIER)
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Packing the Supreme Court, not on anyone’s front burner when Barack Obama was president, sharply moved in that direction after Donald Trump was elected. Now with Joe Biden facing a more strict-constructionist Court unlikely to rubber-stamp his legislative proposals, but likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, we’re back at it. Yet a Court newly stuffed with partisan judges would make it more political, effectively wrecking the separation of powers. Whither our constitutional republic, then? READ MORE » ([link removed])
Crossroads for Liberty ([link removed])
Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution ([link removed])
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
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