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The Lighthouse: Tax Harvard? | Solar Power Falters | 3rd World Powerhouses

December 26, 2023  •  Weekly Newsletter
Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share

Richard K. Vedder (Wall Street Journal)

How to deal with higher ed’s corruption? Milton Friedman had the right idea: Tax the universities. READ MORE »

Restoring the Promise

Higher Education in America

By Richard K. Vedder

As Wind and Solar Power Falter, U.N. Climate Agreement Becomes Wishful Thinking

Alvaro Vargas Llosa (The Washington Times)

Green energy’s low-cost boom appears to be over. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, some global leaders admitted that wind and solar energy won’t do the trick and that fossil fuels will be here for a long, long time. READ MORE »

Hot Talk, Cold Science (2021)

Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
(Revised and Expanded Third Edition)

By S. Fred Singer et al.

The 3rd World’s Emerging Economic Powerhouses

Scott Beyer (Catalyst)

Many global south economies have grown at rates far surpassing the developed world, resulting in well-chronicled standard-of-living increases, and reflected in a sharp dip in global poverty rates. The primary reason? The ongoing post-Soviet evolution towards market democracies. READ MORE »

Making Poor Nations Rich

Entrepreneurship and the Process
of Economic Development

Edited by Benjamin Powell

Second Circuit Opines on New York’s Gun Restrictions

Stephen P. Halbrook (Reason’s The Volokh Conspiracy)

After the Supreme Court vindicated Second Amendment rights in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, New York legislators were irked. They adopted a Concealed Carry Act to counter SCOTUS. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit is not impressed with New York’s attempt to forbid concealed carry in churches or other places open to the public. Let churches and private businesses decide for themselves! READ MORE »

The Right to Bear Arms

A Constitutional Right of the People
or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?

By Stephen P. Halbrook

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Exposing Wasteful Spending of the U.S. Government: The Festivus Report

Craig Eyermann

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Craig Eyermann

Millions of Federal Regulations

Craig Eyermann

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