Category: freedom

Hong Kong’s Degree of Freedom Continued to Decline, Scored Just 42 Points out of 100

Hong Kong’s political rights and civil liberties have further deteriorated, with the score provided by Freedom House, a U.S. NGO, showing it is going down repeatedly. In Freedom House’s latest Freedom in the World 2023 report, Hong Kong’s degree of freedom score is only 42 out of 100. The latest report reviews Hong Kong’s situation…


Why Republicans Seem So Marginalized in Washington

Commentary Last year, we were treated to astonishing hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 protests on Capitol Hill. The Democrats running the show portrayed an insurrection, sedition, and even an attempted coup d’état. The theater was selective and manipulative but it was very effective and implausibly so. It made it impossible to publicly suggest that…


Canada’s COVID-19 Experience ‘Far From Positive’: Think Tank’s Response to Trudeau’s ‘Better Pandemic’ Claim

Despite claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada “had a better pandemic” than many of its peer countries, data shows that the Canadian experience has been “far from positive,” a think tank says. A news release by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) on March 1 states that Trudeau’s claims do not paint a true picture…


Which President Is the Greatest of All Time?

Which American president was the greatest of all time? With Presidents Day on Feb. 20, this episode compares three iconic presidents—Washington, Lincoln, and Trump—in terms of their challenges and effectiveness in shaping the country. It’s no doubt that these men were put in power during crucial moments in American history. Washington led amid the birth…


Educating for Freedom

Commentary This is an abridged version of Professor Coll’s essay in the Winter 2023 issue of The American Experiment, the Jack Miller Center’s historical journal. How do we educate our students for freedom? After all, many of them arrive in college today believing that the United States is systematically oppressive, hopelessly unjust, and that there is…


LIVE at 11AM ET: When the Ruling Class Makes War on the Middle Class

This is what it looks like when U.S. elites set fire to their own country: First, violence in the streets, opens borders exposing families to terror, crime, and drugs. Then they target the younger generation and destroy their ingenuity, ambition, and success. And if you speak out to defend your family, community, and country, you’re…


LIVE NOW: When the Ruling Class Makes War on the Middle Class

This is what it looks like when U.S. elites set fire to their own country: First, violence in the streets, opens borders exposing families to terror, crime, and drugs. Then they target the younger generation and destroy their ingenuity, ambition, and success. And if you speak out to defend your family, community, and country, you’re…


When the Ruling Class Makes War on the Middle Class

This is what it looks like when U.S. elites set fire to their own country: First, violence in the streets, opens borders exposing families to terror, crime, and drugs. Then they target the younger generation and destroy their ingenuity, ambition, and success. And if you speak out to defend your family, community, and country, you’re…


‘Hong Kong’s Descent Into Tyranny Is a Tragedy’: Report

According to the latest Human Freedom Index (HFI) 2022, Hong Kong fell from the world’s No. 1 in 2016 to 34th in 2022. The ranking of freedom of speech and freedom of association dropped to 78th and 140th, respectively. The report is jointly released by the Cato Institute, an American think tank, and the Fraser…


Yuri N. Maltsev, Fighter for Freedom

Commentary As often happens, I only wish I had one last chance to say goodbye to economist Yuri N. Maltsev, my good friend who died this week. We could have spent an entire day and evening reflecting on the great times we had together, laughing uproariously the entire time. It has been a few years…