Sunday Reads...

An irregular round-up of interesting reads.  Most of these made me go "hmmmmm," none of them imply concurrence:

Quote of the Day:

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes, we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
-Elie Wiesel, “Night.”

Round-up:

• Need a template on how to address a university body, here it is from the University of Florida.
• Taxing businesses hurts workers the most, according to the data.
• The emboldening impact of belief providing confidence for greater non-moral risk-taking is studied.
• Charting the residents of Judea over time.
• Kidnapping and killing children were strategic aims and goals pre-planned by Hamas, according to new research.
• More evidence government COVID lockdowns harmed people’s mental health.
• The evidence is very counter-narrative:  Unionization levels are inversely related to the size of the middle class.
• Counter-narrative facts on U.S. taxpayers.
• Immoral Equivalence -  well said.
• More evidence that school choice programs help remedy the systemic disparities developed by the traditional government school system.
• Legalizing marijuana has a disparate impact on communities, along the lines common sense predicts, according to new research.
• Reflections on the ills of modernity as an offensive weapon.
• ​Who runs the best government school systems?  Evidence suggests the military.
• Revisiting the overstated economic impacts of climate change.
• Inflation, the Infant Terrible birthed by our Federal Government.
• The anti-American consumer crusade the FTC continues to wage is a real choice killer.