Articles by Bethany Stotts

News

Pending American Crises

Electricity prices increase, millions of jobs are lost, and household revenues drop. These are not the effects of an American recession—they are an act of Congress.

Book Reviews

Hightower’s New World

For a book touting independent, rebellious American activism, not giving the readers opposing information or the tools to evaluate the books’ argument—in effect demanding that readers swallow the information wholesale—seems highly “undemocratic.”

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Fairness Doctrine Unfairly Promoted

Believe it or not, a conference at American University provided strong representation for last summer’s anti-conservative study, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.”

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2008 Milton Friedman Award

Yon Goicoechea, the leader of the Venezuelan Student Movement, has recently been declared the winner of the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.

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Leave Us Alone

Several Muslim scholars argued at a recent Georgetown University conference on religious freedom that the best way for America to encourage Islamic religious freedom is to stay out of the discussion.

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Climate Change Bible

While some global warming skeptics may have accused climate change believers of placing undue “faith” in murky science, some professors have already elevated the cause to a Christian edict.

Perspectives

Human Rights for Taxpayers

A recent conference on “The Future of Human Rights” raises the question of whether human rights advocacy masks a dual agenda of economic distribution and entitlement expansion.

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Voluntary, Not Mandatory, Indoctrination

The University of Delaware is considering a revival of its controversial residence life program, confirming Accuracy in Academia’s suspicions that President Patrick Harker’s halt to the program was a result of the media coverage rather than remorse over the curriculum content.

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Russian Posturing

With the media making such a big deal about Russian posturing, from the nation’s recent polar explorations to the launch of new missile submarines, fears have risen that Russian military action may again threaten U.S. national interests. Heritage panelists are more skeptical about Russia’s military capacity.