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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Richard Kraemer |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
On November 24, 2024, Romanian voters sent two outsider politicians—one being the nationalist provocateur Călin Georgescu—into a Presidential run-off, scheduled for December 8. Yet days before the second round, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election results based on a report from the country’s intelligence community. Their findings implied that Russia was behind a massive disinformation campaign via TikTok.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Dooley |Daniel Mahoney |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
January 22, 2025 Roger Scruton’s philosophical work is nothing if not spiritual. I still recall how Roger Scruton poignantly smiled at me as I left his fabled Sunday Hill Farm a few weeks before he died. We often met there but, on that occasion, I had a particular mission in traveling to Wiltshire. As his literary executor, we were to discuss his legacy in light of his illness.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Reuven Brenner |David Schaefer |Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic
Politicians and economists promise higher standards of living. Are there reliable, objective measures to help determine when their policies are achieving this goal? At present, most analyses of the question draw primarily on aggregate numbers computed regularly in every country, offered with little commentary on their reliability, either conceptual or in measurement.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Reuven Brenner
In the October 18 summary of the Wall Street Journal’s “Weekend Interview between the Journals’ editors and Donald Trump,” James Taranto notes disagreement about tariffs – the Journal editors being against them, as have been several recent op-eds including one by Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux published October 16.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Reuven Brenner
On September 16, a Wall Street Journal headline highlighted a new class of US millionaires disclosing their preference for renting rather than owning homes. The article’s premise has the potential to induce a drastic change in government and central bank policies that give preferential treatment to real estate in lending. Central banks are equipped to do two things well. One is to stabilize the value of a nation’s currency. The other is to supervise financial institutions.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Reuven Brenner
WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the WeekYour browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 2:06WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the WeekPlay video: WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the WeekA postwar experiment from the Netherlands offers insight into 21st-century higher education in America. When the Dutch government set up the Beeldende Kunstenaars Regeling (Visual Artists Scheme, or BKR) in 1949, its goal was to help struggling artists become financially independent.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Reuven Brenner |Samuel Gregg |Titus Techera |John O. McGinnis
As the past month aptly demonstrates, political polling often swings wildly. Researchers, such as the late political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset, have advised against putting much stock in their reliability, warning everyone to be very skeptical of polling on presidential elections in particular. Unfortunately, they have offered no alternative.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Chad Squitieri |Richard Samuelson |Reuven Brenner |Helen Dale
July 3, 2024 With the overruling of Chevron, courts must interpret statutes independently. The Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.was not supposed to be revolutionary.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |Richard Samuelson |Reuven Brenner |Helen Dale
Why do nations go to war? Why do young men fight and die over the causes that normally occupy the minds of aged statesmen? These are age-old questions, but I didn’t think about them in my youth. I served for two years in the Peace Corps (in Uzbekistan), but gave no thought at all to a military career. Now that I have youth, these questions recur often, in my mind and at my dinner table.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Nelson Lund |Richard Samuelson |Reuven Brenner |Helen Dale
When eight members of our disputatious Supreme Court join an opinion on a controversial topic like the Second Amendment, it’s safe to expect a narrow decision. Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion in United States v. Rahimi is indeed narrowly drawn, and this consensus will encourage proponents of strong gun rights to applaud the Court’s restraint.
