Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn't Have Them?

New California Law Will Require Kids’ Menus to List Water and Milk as Only Drink Options
by Carey Wedler


California state lawmakers recently passed a bill mandating that only unflavored milk and water be listed as “default beverages” on menus.

The solution, they argue, is to "support parents' efforts to feed their children nutritiously by ensuring healthy beverages are the default options in children’s meals in restaurants,” ultimately improving “children’s health by setting nutritional standards for a restaurant’s children’s meals.”

AS IF YOU THOUGHT THE NOTORIOUS NANNY STATE COULDN'T GET ANY MORE INTRUSIVE.




Why Conservatives Can't Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)

by Jon Miltimore


What Haidt found is that both conservatives and liberals recognize the Harm/Care and Fairness/Reciprocity values. Liberal-minded people, however, tend to reject the three remaining foundational values—Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation—while conservatives accept them. It’s an extraordinary difference, and it helps explain why many liberals and conservatives in America think “the other side” is bonkers.

PSYCHOLOGIST JONATHAN HAIDT SAYS MANY PEOPLE TODAY LIVE IN A ‘MORAL MATRIX’.



How Kavanaugh Could Change Everything by Following Jordan Peterson’s Advice

by Robin Koerner


A majority of Americans are, I believe, tired of what our polity has become.

If we wish to see partisanship defeated and to change how we do politics and make judicial decisions, someone has to act first to make a politically difficult decision in favor of what matters more than politics.

Someone has to be the first to rise above.

LIKE A HUNGER STRIKE, THE ACT OF STEPPING DOWN WOULD DO NO GOOD PER SE, BUT IT COULD DO A LOT OF GOOD IF THE REASON FOR IT WERE PUBLICLY DECLARED AND MORALLY RIGHT.




NYT Columnist Wants a Jeff Bezos "Without All the Wealth Creation"

by John Tamny


In the New York Times, technology writer Farhad Manjoo writes that “Jeff Bezos should spend his vast fortune pushing for a society where no one can ever become as rich as Jeff Bezos is now.” It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry or how to analyze what is so obtuse and contradictory.

Bezos got rich by virtue of relentlessly meeting the needs of his global customer base, and because he did, Manjoo wants Bezos to spend his fortune making sure no future individual achieves on the scale that Bezos has? Oh, dear…

EVEN IF BEZOS DROPS ALL OF HIS BILLIONS INTO THE POOREST PARTS OF THE WORLD FROM HELICOPTERS, THOSE DOLLARS WILL ONLY BE USEFUL TO THE POOR TO THE EXTENT THAT A FUTURE BEZOS IS GETTING FILTHY RICH SERVING THEM



Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn't Have Them?

by Kerry McDonald


Stripping the state of its power to define, control, and monitor something as beautifully broad as education would have a large and lasting impact on re-empowering families, encouraging educational entrepreneurs, and creating more choice and opportunity for all learners.

ELIMINATING COMPULSORY SCHOOLING LAWS WOULD BREAK THE CENTURY-AND-A-HALF STRANGLEHOLD OF SCHOOLING ON EDUCATION.



Bernie Sanders's Misguided Amazon Bill Would Backfire on Workers

by Amanda Snell, David Kreutzer


The Stop BEZOS Act could be considered an alternative method of mandating the $15 an hour minimum wage. However well-intentioned, it would have negative economic effects.

AMERICANS SHOULD BE WARY OF POLITICIANS' ATTEMPTS TO WIN VOTES BY PROMISING “LIVING WAGES.”


Forget Lemonade Stands, These 'Kidtrepreneurs' Are Running Million-Dollar Companies

by Brittany Hunter


When most of us think of child entrepreneurs, our minds conjure up pictures of neighborhood lemonade stands and summer lawn mowing gigs. But in the modern marketplace, today’s “kidtrepreneurs” aren’t just running small-scale businesses anymore—they are well on their way to building commercial empires.

MORE AND MORE KIDS ARE EMBRACING THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITS AND RUNNING WILDLY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES.



Paul Johnson on Why We Should "Beware Intellectuals"

by Lawrence W. Reed


Paul Johnson will be 90 on November 2nd. He is one of the most prolific British writers of the last half-century and a superb chronicler of the past. He deserves the honors and plaudits coming his way as he crosses the threshold of his tenth decade.

FROM HIS COUNTLESS BOOKS DOCUMENTING CENTURIES OF HISTORY TO HIS MASTERFUL ABILITY TO CHALLENGE THE PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL LEFT, PAUL JOHNSON IS WORTHY OF HIGH PRAISE AND CELEBRATION.



5 Possible Reasons Incivility and Outrage Are on the Rise

by Jeff Minick


Only a quarter of a century ago this ongoing malevolence would have shocked most Americans. Sure, conservatives and liberals attacked each other, but those disagreements resemble a dialogue in Plato’s Academy compared to the howls and antics we find in 2018. Why is this?

HOW DID WE ARRIVE AT A POINT IN OUR HISTORY WHERE GANGS OF HECKLERS CHASE POLITICIANS FROM RESTAURANTS, WHERE SENATE HEARINGS HAVE LOST ALL DECORUM, AND WHERE FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS PART WAYS OVER POLITICS?



The Wisdom of Barry Goldwater

by Lawrence W. Reed


Two decades after his passing, there is no better way to remember Barry Goldwater than to offer readers a selection of his own words.

“I WOULD REMIND YOU THAT EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE. AND LET ME REMIND YOU ALSO THAT MODERATION IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IS NO VIRTUE!”


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