What’s not acceptable is that we must all lose our freedom because parents won’t, or aren’t doing their jobs. Of course, to even suggest do-nothing parents are the problem vis-à-vis TikTok presumes that there’s a TikTok problem or “crisis” to begin with.
We Lose Freedom Because Parents Won’t Do Their Jobs Read More »
Americans should be free to patronize any social media site they want for political information and thought, the empirical truth is that Americans in general, and young Americans in particular, don’t care much about politics.
Contra TikTok Paranoiacs, Young Americans Aren’t Political Read More »
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
TikTok’s Theft By Paranoid Politicians Is Very Third World Read More »
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries interested in national security precisely because it makes invasion of their country so expensive.
If National Security Is the Goal, Then Leaving TikTok Alone Is the Answer Read More »
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big, encroaching government apostasy.
Cowardly Critics of TikTok Hide Behind Vladimir Lenin Read More »
Just as the U.S. economy collapsed when panicky politicians decided to fight a virus with lockdowns, so did China’s where abject stupidity was allowed to last even longer. The answer in China is the same as anywhere when it comes to growth. China’s critics are overcomplicating what isn’t.
A Lack of a Plan Is Just What China Needs In Order to Grow Read More »
As poets write China’s economic obituary, actual U.S. businesses are rapidly expanding in China. Whom are you going to trust?
The Blind Spots of the Critics of China’s ‘Tanking Economy’ Read More »
Critics of so-called “isolationism” claim a desire to stay out of conflicts like Ukraine are rooted in veneration for Donald Trump and/or Tucker Carlson, partisan disdain for Joe Biden, fear that the U.S. is too weak for global involvement, too broke, or that non-interventionists want to save money, bombs and bullets for the supposedly inevitable war with China over Taiwan.
Critics of ‘Isolationism’ Cherry-Pick the Worst Arguments For It Read More »
Napoleon “did not realize until it was too late that the only closed political economy is the world economy. Britain could not be starved into submission by blockade unless she were totally cut off from the world. As long as Britain could trade with any nation outside France, it was thus trading indirectly with France.”—Jude
Yo U.S. Protectionists, How Goes the ‘Ban’ On Chip Sales In China? Read More »
For every excited or optimistic buyer in any market to express the excitement or optimism, there must be a seller willing to transact. This has seemingly been forgotten by China’s Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping Can’t Prop Up Chinese Shares Much As Fed Can’t U.S. Shares Read More »
