Apparently an upgrade broke the link to the Essay Contests. They have been restored. From the homepage, choose Students, then select the blue square Essay Contests. You can scroll down again to Past Winners "(Read the Winning Essay" to enjoy the selected best essays from 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. You can also click A...(Read more...)
I see reports like this one and question them. The link goes to a summary page which in turn links to the actual study spanning 2,670 pages. Ouch. Outside the root moral issue of expropriating personal wealth via taxes to spend on goals chosen by political rather than market forces, where would a person begin to exa...(Read more...)
"The obvious problem is that what Netflix did is catnip for pedophiles. It also degrades our culture and encourages young children to sexualize themselves. Beyond the obvious, Netflix’s terrible decision points to a more serious problem in Western culture, which is that sexualizing children is a precursor of st...(Read more...)
That was the topic of an online Soho Forum debate held on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. It featured George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin; Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County; and Francis Menton, a retired attorney who blogs at Manhattan Contrarian. The debate was moderated b...(Read more...)
Following the disaster, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated the incident and consulted with NSPE. The Society and NTSB staff spent several weeks discussing the engineering licensing process, its standards, and NSPE’s opposition to licensing law exemptions. NSPE shared several documents, includin...(Read more...)
