Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring
Now streaming from Free to Choose TV: Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring. From the FreetoChoose.tv webpage describing the video: The program shows that “The Arab Spring” was less a political event than it...
Author: Gregory Rehmke
Open-Ocean Fish Farm Maybe Coming to Gulf of Mexico
National Geographic features a short video on “The World’s Largest Open-Ocean Fish Farm”: Open Blue’s operations off the coast of Panama (May, 2014): A five minute CNN 2012 segment on Open Blue below (from...
Economic Inequality and Political Inequity
This post by the late Gary Becker discusses the different because income inequality and issues of equity. Titled “Contrived Inequality and Equality” the post looks at legislation and regulation that creates income differences by...
Presentation Notes: The Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
Charlotte Twight’s article, “Watching You” in The Independent Review offers a deeply critical review of federal policies monitoring and collecting data on everyday people. Full title: “Watching You: The Systematic Surveillance of Ordinary Americans.” In...
Another Look at Income Inequality
In Mark Perry’s recent post: More on … ‘rising income inequality’ with new data from … Census report he argues Census data indicate not much has changed over the last twenty years. The share of...
Electronic Surveillance of Schools, Regulators, and Police
Some years ago, a friend teaching high school in the Dallas area mentioned many of her students had been victims of abuse at home. I was surprised and asked if she saw bruises or...
The [Mid]Eastern World, It Is Exploding…
Debaters struggling with the complexity, turmoil, and violence across much of the Middle East, might enjoy Barry McGuire’s 1965 hit song “The Eve of Destruction.” The song helps put today’s conflicts in perspective. An...
Who Wants to Solve the Problem of Poverty?
For students researching and debating the economics/freedom/equity topic, “Who Really Wants to Solve the Problem of Poverty?” offers an excellent overview. The article asks why people who express deep interest in reducing poverty in...
Greening the Deserts of the Middle East and North Africa
However the current Middle East conflicts turn out, most everyone across Middle Eastern countries will still be living in a desert. Water conflicts between nations are likely to continue into the future across the...
Football and Cheerleader Freedom or Equity?
Robert Reich complains in a Facebook post that NFL cheerleaders are paid too little: Robert Reich As if the NFL didn’t already have enough trouble with women, it turns out the most powerful sports...