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Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, along with nine ex‐presidents from Latin America, and numerous other pro‐democracy leaders, activists, and intellectuals issued a statement in support of Javier Milei. The only way out of Argentina’s crisis, they write, is through political and economic freedom, rather than the populist path the country has been on.
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For in so far as men embrace the belief that the coercive power of the state shall plan, shape, and direct their economy, they commit themselves to the suppression of the contrariness arising from the diversity of human interests and purposes. They cannot escape it. If a society is to be planned, its population must conform to the plan; if it is to have an official purpose, there must be no private purposes that conflict with it.--lippmann
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After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, it looked like the number of abortions would soon plummet across the country. But new estimates suggest that has not happened. The number of legal abortions has held steady, if not increased, nationwide since 2020,
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Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, along with nine ex‐presidents from Latin America, and numerous other pro‐democracy leaders, activists, and intellectuals issued a statement in support of Javier Milei. The only way out of Argentina’s crisis, they write, is through political and economic freedom, rather than the populist path the country has been on.
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For in so far as men embrace the belief that the coercive power of the state shall plan, shape, and direct their economy, they commit themselves to the suppression of the contrariness arising from the diversity of human interests and purposes. They cannot escape it. If a society is to be planned, its population must conform to the plan; if it is to have an official purpose, there must be no private purposes that conflict with it.--lippmann
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After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, it looked like the number of abortions would soon plummet across the country. But new estimates suggest that has not happened. The number of legal abortions has held steady, if not increased, nationwide since 2020,
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UK Immigration
Interesting problem getting attention in Britain. Immigration there is up, 672,000 this year compared to 250,000 four years ago when the Conservatives promised to reduce it. (The population of the United Kingdom is 67 million.) Students, healthcare workers, and their dependents make up the majority but are said to decrease wages which drives native workers out. This is seen with the backdrop of the Right's victory in The Netherlands and its strength in Italy, France, and, surprisingly, Germany. This movement is seen as isolationist, nativist, hostile to Islam and to intervention--especially in Ukraine.
The movement of peoples, often in response to action by the faceless major powers, is just more evidence of the difficulty the rulers have in controlling events without despotism.
Interesting problem getting attention in Britain. Immigration there is up, 672,000 this year compared to 250,000 four years ago when the Conservatives promised to reduce it. (The population of the United Kingdom is 67 million.) Students, healthcare workers, and their dependents make up the majority but are said to decrease wages which drives native workers out. This is seen with the backdrop of the Right's victory in The Netherlands and its strength in Italy, France, and, surprisingly, Germany. This movement is seen as isolationist, nativist, hostile to Islam and to intervention--especially in Ukraine.
The movement of peoples, often in response to action by the faceless major powers, is just more evidence of the difficulty the rulers have in controlling events without despotism.
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