by Byron Schlomach | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris often declared during the campaign that “We believe in science.” And judging by the tendency of the college-educated, especially among the sophisticates living on the coasts, to agree with Harris’s positions on everything from...
by Mike Davis | Nov 18, 2020 | Research
America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking,Even in a Pandemic Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper demonstrates how many local governments’ restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 fail to fit into the long American legal tradition of allowing individuals...
by Brad Galbraith | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog
As the country entered into an election year, COVID-19 reared its head and became an unusual campaign issue. Exposed to extreme politization, facts were buried in an abundance of misinformation perpetuated by the invocation of “science.” With the overly polarized...
by Spencer Cadavero | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog
Since the beginning of this pandemic, the 1889 Institute has argued against lockdowns even as “experts” advocated for them. Now, months after the weeks-long lockdowns were supposed to end, there are still states in various levels of lockdown. State and local...
by Mike Davis | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
In plain English this time. What is the right way to think about the risk of Covid? About three percent of people who get Covid are dying from it. That number drops precipitously for those outside a few well-defined risk groups (namely older adults and those with...
