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Center on Wealth & Poverty
September 17, 2020
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“Marxism at the Barricades:” A Wealth & Poverty Forum with Dr. Carlo Lancellotti

Center on Wealth & Poverty
September 17, 2020
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In the third installment of our Wealth & Poverty Forum, Christopher Rufo, the director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty, interviews Dr. Carlo Lancellotti. Dr. Lancellotti is a professor of mathematics at CUNY Staten Island and the foremost translator of 20th-century Italian political philosopher Augusto Del Noce, who wrote ”The Crisis of Modernity” and ”The Age of Secularization.” Read More ›
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Unconscious on the Street
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Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
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The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
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As cities in the United States, including San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle, consider opening their own safe-injection sites, they should understand the full consequences of these practices. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020
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Cult Programming in Seattle

Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020
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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 ›
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Photo courtesy of Zane at Unsplash
Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020
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The End of Chaz

Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020
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Early this morning, a phalanx of Seattle police officers, armed with long batons and semiautomatic rifles, cleared out the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Seattle can now begin to reckon with the damage. Read More ›
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Protective masks, normally used for surgery, are now in use to fight the Corona Virus SARS-nCov-19.
Photo by Mika Baumeister at Unsplash.
Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 9, 2020
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Christopher Rufo with Tucker Carlson on Progressives’ Response to COVID-19

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 9, 2020
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Director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty Christopher Rufo guested on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss how progressives are using the current COVID-19 pandemic for political gain. https://www.facebook.com/realchrisrufo/videos/251831259543523/

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Bill Walton
April 1, 2020
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Masks and Scarves and Overdraft Protection with Arnold Kling

Bill Walton
April 1, 2020
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This week I sought out Arnold Kling to learn more about some of his innovative ideas to deal with the health, economic and social fallout from the Covid-19 crisis. Arnold, who blogs at arnoldkling.com/blog, author of “Specialization and Trade” and “The Three Languages of Politics” and with a PhD in Economics from MIT is one of America’s more original and penetrating thinkers. Read More ›
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Photo by Ja Ma at Unsplash.
Gale Pooley
October 31, 2019
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New Discovery Fellow Gale Pooley’s Simon Abundance Index Cited in Wired

Gale Pooley
October 31, 2019
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Excerpt: Researchers Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy calculate the “Simon Abundance Index,” which takes into account both global population and the prices of 50 commodities important for human welfare — everything from sugar to salmon to iron ore to natural gas — expressed in terms of how long the average person in the world has to work to afford one unit of each. Every one of the 50 has become more affordable since 1980, even as global population has exploded, and most have become several times more affordable. The aggregate Abundance Index was set equal to 100 in 1980; by 2019 it had climbed to almost 620. Continue Reading …

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George Gilder
May 20, 2019
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Huawei Is an Asset, Not a Threat

George Gilder
May 20, 2019
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Among the world’s most inspiring business voices is Ren Zhengfei, founder-philosopher of Huawei, the disruptive and now condemned Chinese telecom-equipment company. Vilified as a cat’s-paw of the Chinese government, Mr. Ren has decided to place his trust in America’s legal system and launch a court challenge to the U.S. government’s campaign against his company — and family. His daughter, Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, is fighting extradition to the U.S. from Canada on murky charges that she helped financial institutions violate American sanctions on Iran. She has been under house arrest in Vancouver, British Columbia, since December.

Discovery Institute
March 23, 2019
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George Gilder Interviewed on the ‘Whiskey Politics’ Podcast

Discovery Institute
March 23, 2019
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Discovery Institute’s George Gilder sat down with Dave Sussman of the Whiskey Politics podcast to discuss his latest book Life After Google: The Fall of Big Date and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy.