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The American Conservative

Student-Loan Forgiveness Is Bad Policy

Student-loan debt has been shown to have a relatively modest impact on marriage rates and almost no effect on borrowers’ ability to have children.

The American Prospect

After Hyper-Globalization

What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. to produce—and of all nations to regulate capitalism?

Law & Liberty

Two Kinds of Détente

A strategy of détente with Russia and China would buy the United States time to rebuild its technological and military capabilities, writes David P. Goldman.

American Moment Studios

Erin Hawley’s Effort To End An Error – Roe v. Wade

Erin Hawley, Senior Counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, joins Moment of Truth to talk the ADF’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the implications of Dobbs, and the future of the pro-life movement!

Project Syndicate

The New Productivism Paradigm?

There are signs of a major reorientation toward an economic policy framework that is rooted in production, work, and localism instead of finance, consumerism, and globalism. It might just turn into a new policy model that captures imaginations across the political spectrum.

BBC Two

Civilisation by Kenneth Clark

In the final moments of Sir Kenneth Clark’s wonderful late 1960s documentary series on Western Civilization and art history, he reminds us why it is so important to preserve and be grateful for The West’s history, innovation, and beauty.

Compact

The Idiocy of Econ 101

Many of the economic policy disasters of the last generation are easy to understand, once you realize that American policymakers continue to be guided by the superseded lessons of Econ 101, in the age of transnational supply chains, increasing-returns manufacturing, network-effects platforms and continental and global companies with hundreds of thousands of employees.

Breaking Points

How the Fed Caused Inflation

Marshall Kosloff interviews journalist Christopher Leonard to better understand the role played by the Fed in causing runaway inflation.

NumbersUSA

Back of the Hiring Line

Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of Black wealth by Roy Beck is a grand sweep of the little-told stories of the struggles of freed slaves and their descendants to climb job ladders in the eras of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Barbara Jordan, and other African American leaders who advocated tight-labor migration policies.

YouTube

Roe v. Wade: A Legal History

In this documentary, six law professors discuss how and why Roe v. Wade made it to the Supreme Court, the legal foundations for the case, and its impact on the American legal system.

New York Times

Are We Sure America Is Not at War in Ukraine?

Are we at war in Ukraine? If we swapped places — if Russian apparatchiks admitted helping to kill American generals or sink a U.S. Navy vessel — I doubt we’d find much ambiguity there.

The American Conservative

College Is Not For All

Unlike college for all, preparing young people to build decent lives is something our schools could actually achieve, if we tell them to try.

American Affairs

Stagflation: Causes and Cures

Following the hysterical herd has gotten us in this mess. Now is the time to try something else.

Muzzle Velocity

Coming Food Shortages

“How war in Ukraine conflict is creating a global humanitarian crisis,” writes Adam Korzeniewski in Muzzle Velocity.

The Atlantic

How San Francisco Became A Failed City

“There is a sense that, on everything from housing to schools, San Francisco has lost the plot—that progressive leaders here have been LARPing left-wing values instead of working to create a livable city. And many San Franciscans have had enough,” writes Nellie Bowles.

Responsible Statecraft

With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?

The United States appears to have forgotten that aggressive intentions are not the only ways that wars begin. Conflicts can also arise from the workings of the security dilemma, when measures meant to deter aggression and defend the security of one state are perceived as threatening by another.

American Affairs

Financialization and the Problem of Mutually Assured Capital Destruction

Many contemporary economic debates remain grounded in older models of firm competition. But today’s economy is largely characterized by market-feedback-induced consensus among firms that reflects the priorities of asset managers and the interests of asset owners. Recog­nition of this fact is the first step toward a better understanding of today’s capitalism and toward policies that address its key weaknesses, particularly incentives against competitive investment in many industries.

American Moment Studios

Florida Man Takes On Disney

Anthony Sabatini joins Moment of Truth to talk Governor Ron DeSantis, fighting back against Disney, and much more.

National Review

Woke Capital Blinks

In the past few months: Disney paused political donations, Exxon banned BLM flags, Fortune 500 companies were silent on Roe, Netflix fired 150 activist employees, and State Farm abandoned its “LGBT books for kids” program. Is Woke Capital having second thoughts?

Palladium Magazine

Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought

“With both agriculture and monumental construction much older than what was thought before, we should likely rethink the origins of urban life as well.”

American Moment Studios

Restoring Faith in the West (feat. Yoram Hazony)

Yoram Hazony joins Moment of Truth to talk about his new book, ‘Conservatism: A Rediscovery,’ restoring Faith in the West, and the importance of leading personally conservative lives.

Center for the American Way of Life

David P. Goldman Explains China’s Grand Strategy

David P. Goldman, a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, discusses China’s grand strategy and the fourth industrial revolution.