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^{Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020}

Cult Programming in Seattle

_{Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020}

Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.” Read More ›

^{Bill Walton
July 3, 2020
Politics}

The Bill Walton Show: Reality Economics 101 with Don Boudreaux and John Tamny

_{Bill Walton
July 3, 2020
Politics}

On this week’s episode of The Bill Walton Show, Discovery Senior Fellow Bill Walton has a wide ranging conversation about all things economic with Donald Boudreaux, best-selling author, professor of economics at George Mason University who writes the popular blog Cafe Hayek and John Tamny, editor of Real Clear Markets, an editor for Forbes Magazine and the author of “The End of Work” and “They’re Both Wrong.” Even if, or maybe especially, you think economics is too abstract or arcane or harsh, this is a fresh and engaging take that everyone can learn from. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Politics}

Antifa Makes Its Move

_{Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Politics}

Behind the scenes, antifa has done the unthinkable: establish political power in major American cities. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Politics}

Counsel of the Woke

_{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020
Politics}

America has reached an epistemological breaking point. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Politics}

The State of CHAZ

_{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020
Politics}

Seattle’s autonomous zone has become a laboratory experiment in social justice as governance. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics}

Anarchy in Seattle

_{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics}

Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Read More ›

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^{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics}

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

_{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics}

Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2020
Faith & Economics, Free Enterprise, Growth, Politics, Poverty}

Economics in the Age of Trump

_{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2020
Faith & Economics, Free Enterprise, Growth, Politics, Poverty}

Policy maverick Oren Cass challenges the orthodoxy of “growth for growth’s sake.” Read More ›

^{Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics}

Why Did Americans Agree to a National Lockdown?

_{Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics}

Americans take our liberty seriously. We have the idea of limited government enshrined in our founding documents. We say we don’t like the Nanny State. So, why did we agree without a fight or a protest to shelter-in-place orders? To a total lockdown? It’s one thing to agree it would be best to work from home and avoid large crowds, or to quarantine people who are sick or at severe risk. It’s another for cities and states to order healthy, low-risk people not to go to work or church, or even to leave their houses, and to arrest them if they don’t comply. States can rightly do this only in the most extreme emergencies. Most Americans have never witnessed this, or anything like it — even in the middle of a hurricane. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020
Faith & Economics, Politics, Poverty}

To Hell with Main Street?

_{Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020
Faith & Economics, Politics, Poverty}

In times of trouble, Americans rally around a common cause. After Pearl Harbor, we liberated much of the world; during the Cold War, we sent a man to the moon. There was a shared sensibility that Americans were unified in pursuit of the highest ideals. But after some shocks, this sense of unity proves short-lived — and shortsighted. Read More ›