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Best of a Bad Lot: Americans distrust tech less than failing institutions

  “Amidst ‘Techlash,’ Many Americans Still View Technology Industry in a Positive Light” By Adam Thierer and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center   Recently, many politicians, journalists, and others have been talking a lot about a “techlash” against Silicon Valley giants from which only government intervention can deliver us. However, Americans hold technology […]

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Beware AMLO’s authoritarian tendencies

“AMLO and the “Fourth Transformation” in Mexico” By Roberto Salinas-León, courtesy of the Cato Institute   According to Enrique Krauze, Mexico’s prominent classical‐​liberal intellectual, new “winds of authoritarianism” are sweeping across Latin America, characterized by all‐​mighty caudillos who ascend to political power via democratic means, but who then seek to concentrate control over a tightly knit polity […]