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15 Apr Does the CDC’s Mask Mandate for 2-Year-Old Children Make Sense? A Look at the Science

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In the age of COVID, flying carries significant risks for you and your family. Part of that is the virus itself, but increasingly, parents are being kicked off flights because their young children are refusing to wear facemasks. Across the US and Canada, hundreds of stories have...

15 Apr Is Opposing Lockdowns Seditious?

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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 “Woke” CEOs

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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 Thomas Friedman Channels Some Inner Libertarian Instincts

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Alex Nowrasteh Everybody likes to criticize New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. From his often‐comic writing style to simplistic sound bites about interviewing taxi cab drivers, he’s earned humorous criticism over the years. But Friedman’s recent column titled “We Need a High Wall With a Big Gate on...

14 Apr ‘Pause’ on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Reveals One Systemic Flaw Plaguing the FDA

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The US has lost nearly 570,000 souls to COVID-19-related deaths, according to official statistics, and that number continues to climb with each passing day. But the Food and Drug Administration just recommended a temporary halt on one of the potentially life-saving vaccines currently being distributed...

14 Apr No, Economists Do Not Assume Perfect Knowledge

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The assumption of perfect and symmetric knowledge in economics is one that is often chided as being “unrealistic” and “ridiculous.” These critics assert that if economics as a field is built upon such an assumption, surely it cannot generate any meaningful insights. The people who...

14 Apr Gov. Ron DeSantis’s New Discussion with Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetInfamously, YouTube removed the video of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s mid-March roundtable discussion with Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff. Thus, the video of this discussion is, alas, no longer available at Cafe Hayek – but here’s my original link...

14 Apr Covid: The next issue

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I don’t see much discussion in the media of an issue that will soon take front and center stage. In America, over 700 people die of Covid each day. Almost all of the deaths are among people who have not been vaccinated. Within a few weeks,...

13 Apr Dan Klein’s Open Letter to Tyler Cowen

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetMy colleague Dan Klein wrote this open letter to our mutual colleague Tyler Cowen. I share it here: Dear Tyler, Like Don, I am distressed by your recent blog post disparaging the Great Barrington Declaration. Don quotes the 509 fine words authored by Drs. Jay...

13 Apr On Vaccine Passports and the Interpretation of Reality

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Recently I found myself in a dust-up with some friends and acquaintances. The subject was vaccine passports. Although mild and civil throughout, this dust-up, conducted over email, nevertheless robbed me of sleep. More on my sleep loss in the conclusion. The dust-up was sparked by my...