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9 Jul 2023, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
In addition to the economic and national security advantages of opening doors to Chinese immigration, there is also a great moral benefit: freeing large numbers of people from horrific authoritarian oppression. [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 11:45 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Produced by an eminently established collection of people, The COVID Crisis Group. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 7:00 am by Ilya Somin
In his famous General Orders to the Continental Army, issued at the end of the war in 1783, he stated that one of the reasons the United States was founded was to create "an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 6:57 am by Randy E. Barnett
No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 5:26 am by Michael C. Dorf
"But when a deed is done for slavery, caste and oppression, and a blow is struck at human progress, whether so intended or not, the heart of humanity sickens in sorrow and writhes in pain. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 12:59 pm by Ilya Somin
Current private sponsorship programs started with Uniting for Ukraine in April 2022, but have since been expanded to include migrants from four other nations beset by violence and oppression, and a pilot program for people from around the world who fit the legal definition of "refugee. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 1:14 pm by John Ross
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Loughlin knows, as any serious observer must, that nationalist constitutions have historically been an ineluctable pathway to social conflict and oppression (and violence). [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 2:37 pm
  Given the privileged status of many of its theorists--of people playing revolution who had the means and the otium to both become conscious of oppression and to transform a condition of hierarchy into the basis of a transformative ideology that could be scaled to any collective and sourced in any set of historical periods projected forward--it straddled realities perceived almost inevitably from positions of privilege even within subaltern communities. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 7:26 am by Tom Smith
Capitol’s visitor center serves as a reminder that the home of the nation’s Congress was built in part by enslaved Black people. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 11:45 am by Dan Harris
Up until this weekend, Putin had managed to maintain a tight grip on power, due to a mix of nationalism, control over media, and a willingness to suppress dissent. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 7:09 pm by Jacob Fishman
It elucidates how prevailing ideas of “submissiveness” and “subordination” attached to Muslim womanhood, and the grand aim of “liberating Muslim women” that follows, are rooted in an imperial epistemology that caricatures Muslim men as “violent,” “oppressive,” and “tyrannical. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 10:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Yet professors are in peril whenever they discuss these arguments, because the arguments may be seen as stating that "A person, by virtue of his or her race, color, national origin, or sex is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 12:16 am by David Pocklington
National Association of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd [1982] AC 617, [at 10] and noted the particular relevance to the instant case of McCourt [2020] EWHC 2320 (Admin). [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 2:17 pm by Reference Staff
Depending on the state, a legal name change can cost $250 to more than $500, which is a cost that at least a third of surveyed transgender people could not afford. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 12:11 pm by Ilya Somin
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to  the flight of a similar number of people. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 1:17 pm by Ilya Somin
[B]ecause white people constituted an overwhelming majority, the number of white applicants disadvantaged by affirmative action was relatively low… And advantages were being redistributed from descendants of the former oppressor race (white people) to descendants of the former oppressed race (Black people)…. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 10:41 am by Ilya Somin
But even the lower figure is enough to show the severely restrictive nature of the status quo—and the ways in which it consigns many millions of people to lives of poverty and oppression largely because of morally arbitrary circumstances of ancestry and place of birth. [read post]