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lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers
When I was young and naïve, the thought never occurred to me that what appeared in medical journals might be fraudulent. I knew that there had been scientific hoaxes, such as the Piltdown Man, and I knew that, man being fallible, mistakes were made. Papers in medical journals were often followed in the correspondence columns by lively debate over the interpretation of findings, which were seldom indisputable, especially when they involved complex statistics.
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lawliberty.org | JAMES CAPRETTA |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers
If the 118th Congress is remembered at all, it will likely be for its ineffectiveness and dysfunction, which persisted until the merciful end. In its last days, as it rushed for the exits, it put off, once again, final decisions on federal agency budgets until at least mid-March (nearly six months into the current fiscal year). This delay included military spending, which has obvious security consequences.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Mike Gonzalez |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers
At the height of the fateful year of 2020, while Black Lives Matter activists roamed the streets of our cities, setting fire to buildings and shocking much of the country into weirdly accepting provable lies, I warned that America faced mass hysteria akin to the Salem witch trials.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Frederick M. Hess |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers
March 5, 2025 There’s no way to sugarcoat this. During the pandemic, America’s schools failed students and families. In early March 2020, I woke each morning to a flood of calls from reporters asking about school closures even as my wife and I anxiously speculated about whether our kindergartener’s school would be open that day. Every parent remembers that feeling of confusion and helplessness. It was a lost-at-sea moment.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
In his history of the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the events that precipitated the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the creation of the New Deal “The Crisis of the Old Order.” Building on the ideas of the earlier Progressive Movement, (FDR ‘s “Commonwealth Club Address” outlining the agenda for his presidency is officially a “Campaign Address On Progressive Government”), Roosevelt led a realignment, and helped to create a new political order under our Constitution.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Phillip W. Magness |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
For many Americans, March 11, 2020, was the day when it all became real. For some weeks rumors had been circulating about the “novel Coronavirus” out of Wuhan, China. Cruise ships had been quarantined and sanitizer stockpiled. It was the morning of March 11, however, when Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress that there were already hundreds of confirmed American cases of Covid 19, making it unrealistic to prevent further spread. At lunchtime, the WHO officially declared a global pandemic.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Phillip W. Magness |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
Until the onset of Covid-19, most public health experts explicitly rejected the use of large-scale quarantines, also known as lockdowns, as a viable policy response to a respiratory pandemic. Why then, within just a few weeks of the disease appearing in their countries, did those same officials—in the name of science and expertise—embrace draconian policies that shut down entire societies? The judgment against lockdowns rested on the general failure of such measures in past pandemics.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Robert G. Natelson
Bob Dylan is, as I have previously written for Law & Liberty, America’s “definitive post-war artist.” The new James Mangold movie, A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Dylan in the first part of his career, 1961–65, proves just how important the musician is to American culture. The first time Chalamet’s Dylan talks about himself and fame he suggests one has to be a freak, like in a carnival, certainly, something people can’t look away from.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Samuel Gregg |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Robert G. Natelson
From the late-seventeenth century onwards, recognizably liberal ideas steadily moved to the center of Western philosophical, political, legal, and economic debates. Since that time, the same ideas have been subject to sustained critique from across the political spectrum.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Robert G. Natelson |Mark Pulliam
If I were to describe the four thousand people who attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship 2025 Conference last week—added to a who’s who of speakers—the phrase that comes to mind is “Counter-Elites Assemble,” with a nod to 2012’s The Avengers. Given London’s ExCeL is approximately the size and scale of Heathrow’s Terminal 5, the sense that one was in an airport minus the planes was palpable. The place is huge, and so for those three days were the personalities it (barely) contained.
