munist oppression is so bad that desperate Hong Kongers are taking desperate steps to escape. munist party’s response to these attempts shows just why so many are trying to flee. Read More… Eight Hong Kongers who were involved in a 2020 attempt to flee to Taiwan via speedboat appeared in high court on Sept. 2, facing charges of perverting the course of justice within the restrictions set by Hong Kong’s National Security Law, or NSL, according to Hong Kong Free...

The e after multiple social groups have had no choice but to disband amid increasing pressure from the National Security Laws, which bans anything the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, perceives to be a threat to national security. Read More… Several members of a Hong Kong group that organizes an annual vigil for memoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre were arrested on Sept. 8 after they refused to provide information for a police investigation. The group, The Hong Kong Alliance...

Next Digital’s shutdown signals a dark new day for Hong Kong, as the Chinese Communist Party continues to restrict free speech. Read More… On Sept. 5, Next Digital, parent pany of the now-liquidated pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, announced it will begin taking steps to shut down amid pressure from the city’s National Security Law, or NSL. The NSL bans acts and speech the munist government consider threatening to national security, including secession, subversion and terrorism. The remaining four...

Within the right ethical parameters, charging interest can be morally permissible and even beneficial. But we should always stay mindful of the real risk of exploitation. Read More… Interest-bearing loans monplace in today’s economy, but are a subject of great contention in many of the world’s great intellectual and religious traditions. The Mosaic Law dictates: “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge...

Bestselling author Rod Dreher has spent countless hours interviewing and studying what it takes to produce a free and virtuous society. The key ingredients? Creativity and courage among educators and leaders, upheld by Judeo-Christian anthropology – the eternal “basis” for our inalienable rights and liberties. Read More… What’s the foundation of a good education system? Creativity and courage, according to Rod Dreher, author of the bestselling book “Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.” Dreher argues it is...

Is it possible for a government to respect economic freedom while also playing a more or less significant role in providing certain material goods to its citizens? Prudence provides an answer. Read More… What is the relationship between freedom and government redistribution? Can the two coexist? Some believe there is a negative correlation between the two because free economies are often associated with less government intervention. Others might argue that freedom and significant state intervention go hand in hand, because...

When investors are not able to make a profit in one area, they will move to another. Under the threat of eviction bans, landlords have even greater cause to discriminate against e renters. Read More… The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Joe Biden’s recent renewal of the eviction mortarium as issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention e as no surprise. Even President Joe Biden publicly doubted whether his eviction ban was legal, admitting at...

China’s National Security Law was implemented in June 2020, and bans what the CCP deems as secession, subversion, or terrorism. More than 100 activists have been arrested, countless others have fled, civil and/or political groups have disbanded, and businesses have been forced to shut down because of this policy. Read More… The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, tightened its grip on public dissent Aug. 25 when party leadership announced its investigation into a leading pro-democracy group in Hong Kong. The...

Carlson and others on the right have expressed admiration for Hungarian policies that squash progressive ideals, not realizing that the executive consolidation of power present in Hungary could do the same thing to conservative ideas if a progressive rises to power. Read More… Last month, Tucker Carlson replaced Rod Dreher as the latest conservative to take a pilgrimage to Hungary. Carlson praised Hungarian President Viktor Orbán’s pro-family policies, stricter immigration policies, and resistance to progressive views on gender, saying: “If...

Forgiveness is the summit of all the terrorists’ fears, for it renders terror impotent. If only we had the strength to forgive. Read More… “[A]t 12 O’clock … our country gained its full independence, praise and gratitude be to God.” Who said it? An American revolutionary on Sept. 3, 1783, at the signing of the Treaty of Paris, perhaps? Maybe a French soldier on Aug. 25, 1944, when allied forces liberated Paris from the Nazis? How about a Romanian civilian...