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Friday Special: The Lefts New Fear of Speech

10/30/2020

As we said there in rejecting Virginia's claim that the only way it could enable its citizens to find their self-interest was to deny them information that is neither false nor misleading: "There is… an alternative to this highly paternalistic approach. That alternative is to assume that this information is not in itself harmful, that people will perceive their own best interests if only they are...

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Friday Special: The Left’s New Fear of Speech
October 30, 2020 at 09:38AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Lies We Tell in Government and Our Debts to Truth

10/28/2020

HBO’s mini-series, Chernobyl, is a drama depicting the disastrous 1986 explosion, and heroic efforts to control the resulting meltdown, of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). A flawed man, but true hero, Valery Alexeyvich Legasov, worked tirelessly to ameliorate the disaster’s...

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Lies We Tell in Government, and Our Debts to Truth
October 28, 2020 at 10:13AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Stopping a Judicial Power Grab Before it Upends Oklahoma

10/26/2020

A case is pending at the Oklahoma Supreme Court that will have lasting consequences for governance of the state. You wouldn’t know it from the way the case has been reported, but at stake is a principle no less fundamental than whether Oklahomans will continue to be in charge of their government or whether it will be the other way around. That’s the argument of the amicus brief I filed in the...

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Stopping a Judicial Power Grab Before it Upends Oklahoma
October 26, 2020 at 10:31AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

A Plan to Put Teachers in Charge Give Parents Choices and Benefit Children

10/21/2020

How much confidence would you have in a law firm that was managed and run by legal secretaries and paralegals? Probably not a lot. Legal support staff constitute a vital part of their firms. A good paralegal can free an attorney to focus on the things only she can do. A bad paralegal can be worse than no paralegal at all. But even the best paralegal lacks the training and experience to formulate...

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A Plan to Put Teachers in Charge, Give Parents Choices, and Benefit Children
October 21, 2020 at 09:06AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

A Reminder of the Ineffectiveness of Covid-19 Lockdowns

10/19/2020

Since the beginning of this pandemic, the 1889 Institute has argued against lockdowns even as “experts” advocated for them. Now, months after the weeks-long lockdowns were supposed to end, there are still states in various levels of lockdown. State and local governments have devastated their economies with shutdowns in the name of public health. Yet some politicians, including presidential...

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A Reminder of the Ineffectiveness of Covid-19 Lockdowns
October 19, 2020 at 09:10AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Dictatorship in the City: The Conceit of the Aesthetic Elite

10/14/2020

Throughout modern history, the "enlightened" few have sought to define the ideal city. Whether the brainchild of a visionary architect or a commission of prominent residents, the various means of comprehensive urban planning lead to the same end – the chosen few dictating how you live, where you work, what you see, and how you experience your city. This dictatorship of the aesthetic...

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Dictatorship in the City: The Conceit of the Aesthetic Elite
October 14, 2020 at 09:02AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

The Unfairness of Concentrated Wealth is NOTHING Compared to the Unfairness of Redistributing It

10/12/2020

Socialist types like to accuse rich corporate types of having “too much” wealth. Simple fairness, they claim, dictates that one person should not have so much when so many have so little. But if we’re going to talk about fairness, let’s really give it fair consideration. That means looking beyond the petty jealousy and thinking about the fairness of seizing wealth from those who earned it and...

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The Unfairness of Concentrated Wealth is NOTHING Compared to the Unfairness of Redistributing It
October 12, 2020 at 09:12AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Abuse of Office: Cindy Byrd Demonstrates She Doesnt Understand Charter Schools

10/7/2020

A principle I have learned over the years is that when accusations mainly founded in suspicions are made, the accusers are very often guilty of the very perfidy that they allege. Of this, I have no doubt when it comes to the accusations against Epic Charter Schools, a charter school that has quite simply gotten too big and successful for the public school establishment and its enablers to ignore....

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Abuse of Office: Cindy Byrd Demonstrates She Doesn’t Understand Charter Schools
October 07, 2020 at 09:12AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Time to Liberate Legal Education from the ABAs Systemic Ideological Corruption

10/5/2020

The deans of 150 law schools, including all three in Oklahoma, have written a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA) asking the organization to require “every law school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism.” These politically loaded terms are left undefined in the letter, but given the terminology, almost surely refer to the newest school of...

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Time to Liberate Legal Education from the ABA’s Systemic Ideological Corruption
October 05, 2020 at 09:30AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

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