Wonder Information Tag

15 Apr

Posted at 13:00h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

(Don Boudreaux) TweetGeorge Will writes wisely about technology – and the people who us it. A slice: Today, the Internet and social media enable instantaneous dissemination of stupidity, thereby creating the sense that there is an increasing quantity of stupidity relative to the population’s size. This...

15 Apr

Posted at 12:56h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

The pandemic has revealed and reexposed many fault lines in our societies. On the topic of government power, on lopsided risk assessments, on the religious awakening of secular society, on whether strangers are a source of inspiration and cooperation or a lethal threat, and on...

15 Apr

Posted at 12:43h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Following cues from social and environmental activists, many CEOs are now signaling the wokeness of their companies. They extol the virtues of ESG (environment, social, governance) goals such as fighting climate change and increasing biodiversity to promoting racial justice, income equality, and higher taxation. The poster...

14 Apr

Posted at 23:17h in Uncategorized by

The woke left turn of much of corporate America has us thinking about a long-ago Journal headline: Down With Big Business. That header atop a 1979 editorial came in a decade, like this one, when prominent companies were accommodating an aggressive expansion of government to...

14 Apr

Posted at 19:16h in Uncategorized by

This is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to address key health messages that could have a dramatic effect in reducing risk of...