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Sunflower

March 18 marks the eleventh anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement. Students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and democratic island nation. The event awakened […]

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international affairs

Dictator Down

Paul Jacob on a long weekend for tyrants.

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defense & war general freedom international affairs

‘Meat on the Table’

Paul Jacob believes we should make ourselves unappetizing.

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international affairs

Home of the Brave

Paul Jacob extrapolates the consequences of China’s growing South China Sea criminality.

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free trade & free markets general freedom international affairs

Bombers Off the Coast

Paul Jacob on the times in which we live.

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defense & war general freedom international affairs

Xi Excuses, Demands, Assaults

Paul Jacob on the threat freedom faces from China.

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crime and punishment folly

Crime Fighters Give Up

Paul Jacob on the leading edge of policing culture

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Sunflower & Hawaii

March 18 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, wherein students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and democratic island nation. The event […]

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free trade & free markets political economy subsidy

When the CHIPS Are Weighed Down

Has DEI “killed the CHIPS Act”? The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 created a giant package of subsidies that shouldn’t exist to begin with and is made even worse by all the strings attached. The Act authorizes giving $52 billion of taxpayer money to microchip manufacturers to make chips in the U.S. The boost […]

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defense & war general freedom international affairs

Panic at Sea

“The passengers later told local media they feared for their lives,” Newsweek reported. Those 23 tourists, along with 11 crew members, were traveling from Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, located just six miles off the Chinese mainland, back to the big island of Taiwan, when a Chinese Coast Guard vessel stopped and boarded their boat . . […]