A Christmas Carol in Cold, Cold Europe
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
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Military, Anti-Terrorism, Foreign Aid, Immigration, and Climate Industrial Complexes
Debaters are unusual and among the few engaged in public policy debates not guided or influenced by special interests. America’s founders used the term factions, and argued that when government meddles in the economy it...
Scrooge on Foreign Aid and Human Flourishing
Imagine a young Ebenezer Scrooge debating the foreign aid or international terrorism topics. How do we best reduce poverty and conflict in the developing world? Scrooge competed in an early 1800s English debating society...
STEM, Evil Scientists, and Evil Social Scientists
Earlier posts have discussed the three announced motions for the The Winter Holidays Open in Zagreb. (STEM searching, Enviro cost accounting, Poor environmental accounting, 100% Inheritance tax) This post wonders if evil scientists popular in movies scare...
Debate over Criminal Justice Delusions
Heather Mac Donald with an oped in the Wall Street Journal drawn from her longer City Journal article, “The Decriminalization Delusion,” joins the criminal justice reform debate with guns blazing. Mac Donald blasts criminal...
Miscounted, Mismeasured Fish? That’s a Federal Crime with Jail Time
Of the tens of thousands of regulations that restrict entrepreneurs trying to work each day or build new enterprises in farming, dairy, street-vending, home-baking, political groups most are local and state problems of local and...
Focus on Victim Justice: A “Sea Change” for the Federal Court System
Many reforms proposed for the federal court system have goals of reducing pretrial detention, plea-bargaining abuses, lowering the prison population, and reducing the high rate in which released prisoners are again arrested, plead guilty,...
Parallel Societies: Trade and Enterprise Outside the Law
This movement should create a situation in which authorities will control empty stores, but not the market; the employment of workers, but not their livelihood; the official media, but not the circulation of information; printing plants, but...
Ending U.S. Funding for Iraq and other Middle East Reconstruction Projects
Students researching U.S./Middle East policy should be aware of the influence of special interest groups. The Founders cautioned about “factions,” explaining that when federal policies helped or hurt particular groups, they would lobby for...
Time for Cameras to Look Back at the 40 Federal Agencies’ Undercover Police and Courts
Expanded use of body cameras can both protect police from false allegations of unnecessary violence and protect citizens from unnecessary police violence. Federal legislation has been proposed to mandate body camera be used by...