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^{Christopher Rufo
January 20, 2021}

Breaking: Stop CRT Legal Coalition Announced

_{Christopher Rufo
January 20, 2021}

The Center on Wealth & Poverty responds to President Biden doubling-down on critical race theory in the federal government. Read More ›

^{Benjamin Wiker
October 29, 2020}

History, Like Black Lives, Matters

_{Benjamin Wiker
October 29, 2020}

The means to addressing excessive force by police shouldn’t be those used by two of the most notoriously brutal political movements of the Left — the French Revolutionaries of the Terror — and the Right — modern Germany’s National Socialists. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 14, 2020}

Liberalism and Its Discontents

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 14, 2020}

In this webinar, Center on Wealth & Poverty Director Christopher Rufo speaks with Professor Patrick Deneen about his most recent book Why Liberalism Failed, the civil unrest sweeping the nation, and the upcoming election. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
September 17, 2020}

“Marxism at the Barricades:” A Wealth & Poverty Forum with Dr. Carlo Lancellotti

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
September 17, 2020}

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 ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020}

The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

_{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020}

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 ›

^{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 ›

^{Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020}

The End of Chaz

_{Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020}

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 ›

^{Bill Walton
April 1, 2020}

Masks and Scarves and Overdraft Protection with Arnold Kling

_{Bill Walton
April 1, 2020}

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 ›

^{Gale Pooley
October 31, 2019}

New Discovery Fellow Gale Pooley’s Simon Abundance Index Cited in Wired

_{Gale Pooley
October 31, 2019}

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 …

^{George Gilder
May 20, 2019}

Huawei Is an Asset, Not a Threat

_{George Gilder
May 20, 2019}

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.