August 10, 2021
fromCreators: Hate speech bans are unconstitutional in the United States, whose founders had the wisdom to recognize that giving government the authority to censor its citizens is more dangerous than allowing bigots to spew bile in a marketplace of ideas where reasonable people can refute and rebuke them.
fromTheHill: Biden acknowledged the obvious: any new order to extend the moratorium would be unconstitutional. Yet, he added that he was able to find “several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”
fromAmericanSpectator: Liberty is not an afterthought.
fromTownhall: Employers consistently report that new hires fare poorly in writing and critical thinking — essentially, two sides of the same coin. The shift began in the 1980s, as a new form of literary criticism knows as “deconstructionism” caught on in English departments across the country.
fromNationalReview: Two new independent polls on California’s September 14 recall election have a startling explanation for why Governor Gavin Newsom is in trouble. His support among minority communities is crumbling as issues such as crime, COVID restrictions, and a huge unemployment-benefits scandal dominate the race.
fromReason: The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.