A study by Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) on the effects of social media went viral on X over the weekend. While the post represents the results as “shocking,” the study itself found little evidence that social media use hurts its users. The SIEPR study was published as a working paper in April […]
In a Monday announcement, several U.S. embassies stated that student visa applicants will be required to turn the settings on their social media accounts to “public” in order to facilitate scrutiny of their posts, presumably for ideological screening. The change is part of a recent string of crackdowns on international students, which has targeted many […]
On Monday, Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that his agency had reached a settlement with Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), two of the largest advertising holding companies that had been targeted by the FTC’s recent advertiser boycott antitrust investigation. With the FTC’s investigation into these advertising companies […]
On July 6, 1775, the great Pennsylvania lawyer John Dickinson coauthored the Continental Congress’ Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. Among the grievances in the Declaration were the British government’s gun control program, namely having “murdered” people in attempting to confiscate arms and gunpowder at Lexington and Concord, and the disarmament of […]
There are many questions to ask after a murder. The most operative: Who did it? Where? When? Who were the victims? What was the perpetrator’s motive? When it came to the Minnesota shooting on Saturday—during which a man named Vance Boelter allegedly killed Rep. Melissa Hortman (D–Brooklyn Park) and her husband, Mark, and wounded state […]
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) summit last week on protecting children online previewed an odd pivot. Apparently, the agency wants to be a sort of family values advocacy group. “This government-sponsored event was not a good-faith conversation about child safety—it was a strategy session for censorship,” said the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a trade group […]
Adolescence, a British TV series streaming on Netflix, depicts the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie for the brutal murder of his classmate, Katie, and the subsequent fallout in an imaginary English town. Shot in a continuous single-camera style, each episode explores the perspectives of Jamie’s family, law enforcement, and an evaluating psychologist. The limited-series format mimics the […]