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Jan 8, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | G. Patrick Lynch |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney
Two themes dominated the story of the first American pioneers who ventured into space. The first was the remarkable bravery and heroism that the world’s first generation of space explorers displayed in breaking the bonds of Earth’s gravitational force, both literally and figuratively. The second was the national character of the endeavor. The men who first ventured into space were no mere mortals.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | G. Patrick Lynch |Rachel Lu |David Goldman |John O. McGinnis
Economist Anthony Downs formulated the most famous attempt to model individual-level decision-making when it comes to election participation. He sought to explain why scores of individuals eligible to participate in a representative government choose not to do so. His thinking was based on a relatively simple cost-benefit analysis of the choice.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
aier.org | Andrew Byers |G. Patrick Lynch
Here in the US we don’t normally have much interest in the domestic politics of our neighbors Mexico and Canada. Mexico, for example, is part of our presidential election only insofar as immigration is a top issue.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | G. Patrick Lynch
18 hours agoPrince George is making a splash with his new hobby, according to his father Prince William! During a visit to the Birtley Community Pool in Tyne and Wear, England, on Oct. 3, the Prince of Wales, 42, revealed that his 11-year-old son is excited by scuba diving. "George loves scuba diving. He's 11 …
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | G. Patrick Lynch |Graham McAleer
Shortly before I called Keith Whittington to begin our interview he was slightly surprised when I told him we’d do it over Zoom to help me transcribe the conversation. When we got together later that day I found out why: he had been wearing a Pink Floyd tee shirt and wanted to change to look professional. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that America’s foremost conservative defender of free speech is a fan of psychedelic rock and heavy metal—Black Sabbath specifically.
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May 21, 2024 | 
aier.org | G. Patrick Lynch
There is no point in taking any of the economic assertions in Robert Lighthizer’s new book “No Trade is Free” seriously. That would be the equivalent of a geographer taking seriously the work of a Flat Earth advocate. For many years most economists have clearly understood that free trade is hugely beneficial to both individual consumers and the economies of communities of all sizes. If Paul Krugman and Milton Friedman agree on something, it’s safe to say that it’s likely true.
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May 17, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |David Schaefer |Samuel Gregg |G. Patrick Lynch
Most of Guy Ritchie’s movies have been stories of friendship between men, attempts to restore a much-needed confidence in a gender-neutral era. His rock music-video montages, clever dialogue, often in slang, and romantic interest in the criminal underworld have preserved the only remaining area of freedom for men in cinema. His preferred mode is comic, he likes focusing on the strangest thing about men, our tendency to boast and strut.
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May 15, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | R. Shep Melnick |Neal McCluskey |Samuel Gregg |G. Patrick Lynch
People of a certain age might recall the early-1970s “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” television commercial, featuring an expanding chorus of singers, all of different racial and ethnic groups, joining their voices to declare how they would like to “teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.” It captured an ideal many people no doubt share: All, diverse people, perfectly integrated. Of course, humanity is not a Coca-Cola ad (indeed making that spot had and letdowns).
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May 13, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Schaefer |Samuel Gregg |G. Patrick Lynch |Adam White
The University of Chicago, from which I received my graduate degrees, has long constituted America’s model of a temple of learning, dedicated to freedom of inquiry, unconstrained either by political considerations or narrow financial ones. Under its legendary president Robert Maynard Hutchins, the school abolished its top-tier football team, based on Hutchins’s belief that high-powered sports had no connection to the university’s educational mission.
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May 10, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Rebecca Burgess |Samuel Gregg |G. Patrick Lynch |David Schaefer
Downbeats are what initiate musical measures; upbeats are what end them. For the conductor and orchestra, the downbeat creates the sense of structure and provides stability, grounding the composition with a rhythmic anchor. The upbeat is what introduces anticipation and motion. Rhythm—the necessary pulse of any piece of music—has as its basis the symbiotic relationship between these, and yet it’s the downbeat that acts as the heartbeat within.
