National Review- Quillette
- The Women Excluded from Parsi Life May 23, 2025The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.Nev March
- Student Scapegoats May 23, 2025The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.Carl Skutsch
- Life’s Ancient Bottleneck May 21, 2025Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.Jack Lohmann
- The Women Excluded from Parsi Life May 23, 2025
- Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025Love of country in the time of Trump.Jay Nordlinger
- WFB & Co. May 12, 2025My time at NR has now come to an end. God bless you all.Jay Nordlinger
- The Conundrum of China Trade May 7, 2025A longstanding question, whose end is nowhere in sight.Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025
Monthly Archives: March 2020
What Do We Really Know about COVID-19?
A fascinating conversation between Reason Magazine’s Nick Gillespie and Science Correspondent Ron Bailey. See below. JFB
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Tagged Corona Virus, Covid-19, Libertarianism, Nick Gillespie, pandemic, Public Health, public policy, Reason Magazine, Ron Bailey, Science
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Why is there a Shortage of Medical Equipment to Fight COVID-19?
Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago was once asked what government’s mainly produces. “Lines” he replied. So here we are in March 2020 with the economy screeching to a halt and citizens staying in … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucracy, Corona Virus, Covid-19, health care, John Stossel, pandemic, Red Tape, video
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Democrats are Behaving Disgracefully
For the second time in 2 days the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted unanimously (except for Doug Jones, D. AL) to refuse to allow a vote by the full Senate on a $2 trillion bill designed to cushion the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, Congress, COVOD-19, Democrats, emergency, Financial Markets, Senate
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Judge Napolitano on Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the Constitutional Order
With each passing day the failure of the welfare state to accomplish its stated objectives becomes more and more obvious. Needless to say failure hasn’t dimmed progressive enthusiasm for the politics of command and control. The progressive project, still lauded … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, freedom, Judge Napolitano, Libertarianism, Nanny State, Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine, Teddy Roosevelt, welfare state, Woodrow Wilson
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The Narrative
One of the more disheartening developments in what we laughingly call public debate has been the extraordinary emphasis placed on “the narrative”. The whole point of “the narrative” is issue framing. Instead of facts like who, what, where, why and … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Corona Virus, Covid-19, emergency, health care, narrative, politics, President Trump, Reason Magazine, virus
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Are the Brains of Men and Women Different?
JFB
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Tagged John Stossel, Neuroscience, political correctness, Reason Magazine, Science
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John Stossel & Star Parker on The Lie of the Left
JFB
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Tagged christianity, left, Libertarianism, politics, public policy, religion, tradition, welfare state
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The Supposedly Moderate Mr. Biden
Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a shouting match, not unlike others he has had, with a Michigan auto worker at a campaign stop. The subject was 2nd amendment rights. Biden is being presented as Everyman, the proverbial nice … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, Joe Biden, Michigan
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Now What?
Campaign Finance Recent events have proved to be clarifying if unedifying. Michael Bloomberg did us the enormous favor of spending over $500 million in an effort to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. For his efforts he won a total of … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion politics, campaign, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, demonstration, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, money in politics, President Obama, President Trump, primary, protest, Supreme Court
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