The end of free speech? Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason has an excellent cover story about how “the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors.” Here’s my favorite part:
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Occupational licensing and migration. TWS has argued about the perils of occupational licensing (see Felten, Eric, and Rhoads, Steven E., among others …), but there’s another good criticism of it making the rounds these days: it hurts interstate migration. Tyler Cowen highlights a new paper by Janna E. Johnson and Morris M. Kleiner from the University of Minnesota:
Put simply, if your profession is licensed by your state, you’re less likely to move in many cases because moving to another state doesn’t mean you can immediately take up your profession. Lawyers, one can understand, given the individual nature of state and local laws, but hairdressers and barbers?
On entitlements and the High Cost of Good Intentions. Over at EconTalk, the venerable podcast hosted by Russ Roberts, John Cogan discusses his new book, The High Cost of Good Intentions. Here’s the writeup:
The podcast runs about an hour.
In Ireland, lawmakers are trying to criminalize sharing fake news. Poynter reports:
Liberal college: Please call us, not the police, if our students shoplift. Oh, Oberlin! The loony liberal college on America’s north coast has done it again. Last fall, a beloved local bakery became the target of the small liberal Ohio college town’s ire after three students were arrested for robbing (and beating!) a shopkeeper who believed they were shoplifting wine. (They pleaded guilty.) Now the #woke Oberliners—both students and the administration—are after the bakery, accusing it of racism. And so, the bakery is suing:
Did you catch that? Oberlin wanted the Gibsons to call them instead of the police. What’s more:
Which is the most millennial thing ever: a podcast about a college and its students teaming up on a bakery that just doesn’t want to get robbed. Go Gibson’s!
The Bridge to Nowhere on the Border. Did you know in Texas there is an abandoned bridge to Mexico out in the middle of nowhere?, as it’s known, is blocked off nowadays, but was once used by Dow Chemical to “haul processed fluor spar into the United States from a Mexican mining operation in La Linda — the United States Customs Service closed it in 1997, blocking it with concrete barricades.” The New York Times reports that, back in 2002, the bridge was slated for destruction. 15 years later, it still exists. Check out the photos.
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