Would highlighting the least among us elicit only predictable ideological reactions, or serve to encourage a new kind of entrepreneurial initiative? Read More… In the 1936 film My Man Godfrey, an oddly well-spoken “forgotten man” whose temporary lodgings are a city dump, finds himself the object of a game played by a pair of rich sisters, one of whom takes a fancy to him. Seeing in Godfrey a project, or “protégé,” the more likable sister decides to give him a...

A cut in size and a little taxation could just save the USPS from itself. Read More… The United States Postal Service (USPS) e under criticism for extending first-class delivery times as part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan to revitalize the agency. According to Tyler Powell and David Wessel at Brookings, “The USPS has operated at a loss since 2007.” In response to the news of delayed service, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.,tweeted, “Louis DeJoy is wrong. We don’t...

Young people are constantly presented with vocational blueprints and cookie-cutter college tracks that ignore plexity of the human person and the diversity of human needs. Read More… The United States is facing a labor shortage of epic proportions. With over 10 million jobs currently available and almost 9 million available workers waiting on the sidelines, “the U.S. now has more job openings than any time in history,” according to NBC News. The Biden administration surely bears some of the blame,...

If we assume a chaos narrative, humans have little hope peting with our petitors. But through the lens of God’s creative design, humans e protagonists in a bigger, more mysterious story of economic abundance. Read More… Fears about job loss and human obsolescence continue to consume the cultural pounded by ongoing strides in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The job-killing robots are almost at the door, we are told, mere moments away from replacing the last traces of human inefficiency...

By the time Lai appears in court on Dec. 28 to face treason charges, he will have spent almost a year in prison, during which time his panies have been folded and six of his senior-ranking colleagues have all been arrested. Read More… Jimmy Lai, a 73-year-old Hong Kong media mogul, outspoken critic of China, pro-democracy activist, and recipient of the Acton Institute’s 2020 Faith and Freedom Award, will approach a year behind bars as his national security case is...

The alternative to holding panies like Facebook liable for third-party content on their sites is a regulatory machine that poses a far greater threat to free speech than self-monitoring. Read More… Frances Haugen’s recent whistleblower testimony regarding Facebook will only stoke the fires of the battle heating up in courts and legislatures over provisions originally addressed in Rule 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Limits placed by private panies on individuals and organizations have raised an alarm on both ends...

While the case before the Court concerns rural Maine, the implications for parents across the nation are clear: state funds should continue to be available to parents for religious schools and is no violation of the Establishment Clause. Read More… The difference between a “Christian organization” and an “organization that does Christian things” might seem like a distinction without a difference. But it is precisely this difference that is at the heart of the question presented to the U.S. Supreme...

Even the memory of the massacre has e a threat to Hong Kong and Chinese authorities, as they crack down on mass attendance at public vigils. Read More… The former vice chair of a now-disbanded civil rights group,​​ the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which also organizes the annual Tiananmen Square vigil, pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting others to take part in this year’s banned vigil. Chow Hang-tung, representing herself, appeared in...

The Pillar of Shame has stood as a memorial to the lives lost during the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 24 years. Its removal is another sign that the Hong Kong government will not tolerate dissent even in the form of memory. Read More… The University of Hong Kong requested that members of a prominent but now-disbanded social rights group remove from campus grounds its famous statue, the Pillar of Shame, which pays tribute to victims in Beijing’s violent crackdown during...

The written word serves as a landmark set by our forefathers. Being in the presence of books both old and rare has a way of making us look at them with fresh eyes. Read More… Long after we’ve all passed on, how will future generations remember us? One answer: books. Certainlythere will be landmarks and buildings and other memorabilia that help our descendants understand our society as it exists today, along with the people who helped shape it. But there...