Source: The Atlantic
by Avlana Eisenberg

“[M]ost Americans appear to agree that crimes are more harmful if committed because of prejudice, and that they thus deserve additional punishment. Nevertheless, hate-crime laws do have their critics. Some on the left argue that criminal law is the last thing that will help communities of color, and that hate-crime laws will be applied disproportionately against the most marginalized, serving only to worsen our mass-incarceration crisis. Others on the right insist that hate-crime laws penalize people for protected speech and scapegoat individuals for systemic racism. However, there may be a more basic reason hate-crime statutes might not work as their framers intended: Few of these laws are ever actually enforced.” (06/22/21)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/hate-crimes-not-used-prosecutors/619179/

Source: Foreign Policy
by Mark Leon Goldberg

“Over the last year, there has been an explosive growth in the research and development of blockchain technologies known as decentralized finance. DeFi, as it is called, will enable an entire financial ecosystem without conventional intermediaries like banks. Using DeFi blockchains, money can be transferred cheaply and efficiently around the world, access to capital will be broad, identity documents secure, supply chains verified, and financial contracts self-executing, among many other uses. These technologies are no longer theoretical. They are coming online at an increasingly rapid clip and are now positioned to provide financial services to populations long excluded from financial systems, particularly in the developing world.” (06/22/21)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/22/blockchain-bitcoin-energy-decentralized-finance-development-poverty/

Source: Liberty
by Gary Jason

“The election of Donald Trump — the Boss — drove me out of the Republican Party. Fair enough — the populists, nativists, protectionists, isolationists, and their fellow travelers in organized labor successfully took over the party, and I felt that they were entitled to their prize. I wrote to the RNC, resigning, and asking if they would refund the money I donated to them over 40 years. But of course there was no refund. However, during the four long years of the Boss’[s] reign, I tried to give credit when credit was due. I want to discuss a particular example.” (06/21/21)

https://libertyunbound.com/retrospective-praise-for-the-boss/

Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore

“President Joe Biden’s performance at the meeting with foreign leaders in Britain last week was a disgrace. Biden cut deals with Britain that sold out America’s interests, and for doing so, he won the worshipful accolades of the Europeans, the Brits and the Canadians. It’s amazing how popular you are at a party when you pay everyone’s bills. Except Biden isn’t spending his own money, of course. He’s spending ours. It would be an understatement to say that the Euroland leaders weren’t big fans of former President Donald Trump. Trump went to the G-7 meetings and told his international peers that there was a new sheriff in town and that his foremost mission was to put America first. He canceled bad trade deals in which other countries were cheating.” (06/22/21)

https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2021/06/22/biden-economic-strategy-put-america-last-n2591334

Source: Cato Unbound
by Rok Spruk

The institutional advantages of the constitutional monarchies should not be left to the empiricist’s neglect. Some of the richest and most successful countries in Europe, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, are constitutional monarchies enjoying high levels of social trust and envious living standards. However, the fact that rich constitutional monarchies have evolved over centuries in a handful of countries located in Northern Europe does not per se comprise a plausible case for preserving monarchies in general.” (06/21/21)

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2021/06/21/rok-spruk/monarchy-cause-prosperity-or-consequence