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...

One needn’t take a position on organic farming to see the folly in Sri Lanka’s decision. This is a classic case of fatal conceits run amok — of lofty ideas and one-dimensional strategies that hold little regard for localized knowledge and plexity of the human person. Read More… In April, the Sri Lankan government banned the import and use of fertilizers and agrochemicals, including insecticides and herbicides, marking a significant step in their goal to e the world’s first country...

A new study shows that zero-sum thinking is pervasive across society, with roots in the ways we tend to think about our neighbors and the economy. Read More… One of the basic insights of economics is that trade is mutually beneficial, making both parties better off than they were before. It’s a proposition about human exchange that stretches back to Adam Smith’s foundational treatise, “The Wealth of Nations.” “Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and...

Freedom, as indispensable as it is, is not sufficient for constructing the quality of society and culture appropriate to man, his dignity, and his capacity. It must be a freedom oriented to something beyond itself, as we have said so many times, oriented to truth: the truth of man’s origin, the truth of man’s nature, and the truth of man’s destiny. Read More… It feels strange to type that it’s been 20 years since 9/11. What happened 20 years ago...

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...

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...

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...

To fully understand the impact and future of Taliban, it is crucial to be cognizant of the varieties of Taliban and the power dynamics among their extremist rivals, such as al-Qaeda and ISK. Read More… The dramatic return of the Taliban to Kabul has consequences beyond the borders of Afghanistan. The Taliban are not the most popular group in Afghanistan but they certainly are the most feared, with enough force at their disposal to impose their dogmatic version of Islam...

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...

“The NSL [is] the biggest damage to the whole industry,” former Apple Daily journalist Elvin Yu told ABC. “Nobody is safe.” Read More… Hong Kong pro-democracy news service Apple Daily shut its doors on June 24, but the ripple effects from the Chinese Communist Party’s attack on the free press continue to reverberate. Seven former Apple Daily employees have been charged under the city’s National Security Law, or NSL, which bans what the government deems to be acts of secession,...