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Democracy is having a hard time. In India, once the world’s largest democracy, the pandemic has hastened the country’s slide toward authoritarianism. In the US, the Trump administration’s attacks on democratic norms reached new lows when the former president, backed by the Republican party, refused to accept his loss in the November 2020 elections. In fact studies show democratic norms are in decline worldwide. Freedom House recently argued that democracy has been declining since 2005, while the latest report from the Varieties of Democracy Institute reveals that 68% the world’s popu...

Summary The IMF was created in the wake of World War II to manage the global regime of exchange rates and international payments. Since the collapse of fixed exchange rates in 1973, the fund has taken a more active role, intervening in debt crises in developing countries and in Greece and responding to the pandemic-induced economic crisis. Some critics say the conditions the IMF attaches to its loans are too harsh and have harmed developing countries. Since its inception in July 1944, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has undergone considerable change as chief steward of the world’s m...

In the preface of her new book,  Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, Helen Andrews notes with characteristic bluntness, “Boomers didn’t just shake up the nuclear family. They broke it.” It’s a defensible claim, but unfortunately, Andrews (a senior editor at  The American Conservative) does almost nothing in the rest of her book to defend it.  The book consists of six profiles of famous Boomers—Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Jeffrey Sachs, Camille Paglia, Al Sharpton, and Sonia Sotomayor. “They were mainly people who would have made great contribut...

♪ ♪ steve: welcome back, everyone. we're back with sara and charlie. we have another aspect of the immigration debate to bring you, a huge part of the immigration crisis is the flow of people trying to escape the crime and corruption in failed states like honduras, el salvador, guatemala. there's an establishment consensus on what to do about that, give them more aid. is that really the answer? i'm joined now by highly acclaimed economist william easterly. professor, good to see you. >> good to see you. steve: i'm going to put the question to you very directly. do you think giving increasi...

To run their own lives but those in power are capable of running everyone else's lives because they are so much smarter. it is what i call the fatal conceive or william easterly calls the tyranny of experts. because that's what it is, it's tyranny. it has been shown in history that makes people's lives worse. because no one has enough knowledge or smart enough to run everybody else's lives. >> so this discussion will now have people thinking, aha, he likes rand paul. he las libertarian leanings. he wants government out of our lives. is rand your guy? >> no, i don't have a guy. i have these pri...