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Barnes: The WHO Failed its One Main Job
May 17, 2021
Terry Barnes writes in The Spectator that the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed its one main job, saving lives and livelihoods from global devastation, citing the review of the initial response to the Wuhan virus by an independent panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, highlighting that the WHO was too slow in declaring a public health emergency in January 2020 when the coronavirus could have been contained in regional China.
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Shalin: Hofstadter’s Warning of University Decline Has Been Ignored
May 13, 2021
Director of Policy Analysis at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, Jay Schalin analyses Historian Richard Hofstadter’s unheeded warnings in the 1960’s to academia to be wary of politicizing the university, which Schalin highlights has led to today’s « woke » campus.
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States Limit use of Facial Recognition by Police
May 10, 2021
At least seven states and nearly two dozen cities have limited the use of facial recognition technology to solve crimes, like human trafficking, as concerns are rising over civil rights violations, racial bias and invasion of privacy.
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China Cuts Diplomatic Talks with Australia
May 06, 2021
Following recent clashes over various issues including a private probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and the banning of Huawei’s 5G network, China has cut off a channel for diplomatic and trade talks with Australia.
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Pro-Democracy Teachers Banned in Hong Kong
May 05, 2021
The total is now up to four teachers in Hong Kong who have been banned due to their participation in the 2019 pro-democracy protests as well as for using pro-democracy material in the classroom, which Beijing considers hostile to the nation and Chinese people.
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