by Jamison Koehler on August 19, 2022 People used to come in for their initial interview at the Philadelphia public defender’s office in a panic: “I […]
Month: December 2023
China protests after an apartment fire in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, test the country’s zero-Covid strategy
A fire leads to angry protests in the home region of a repressed ethnic minority. A labor protest turns violent at a Foxconn factory. Student […]
Bennet’s tax credit did not cut child poverty in half as he claims
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is not telling the truth about the impact of Child Tax Credits on poverty among children. Over the next few weeks, […]
From Saving the World to Fighting Over IP: Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech
One of the most amazing accomplishments in the field of biotechnology has been the development and distribution of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19). The […]
Thought for the Day: On “PostModernism”
(Steven Hayward) From Stephen Hicks’ book, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: Any intellectual movement is defined by its fundamental philosophical premises. […]