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Interviewer: Jillian York Laura Vidal is a Venezuelan researcher and writer focused on digital rights, community resilience, and the informal ways people learn and resist under authoritarian pressure. She holds a Doctorate in Education Sciences and intercultural communication, and her work explores how narratives, digital platforms, and transnational communities shape strategies of care, resistance, and belonging, particularly in Latin America and within the Venezuelan diaspora. She has investigated online censorship, disinformation, and digital literacy and is currently observing […]

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David Inserra As of December 10, Australia will implement sweeping restrictions on access to social media for individuals under 16. Hailed as the first of its kind, Australia’s Parliament passed a law in 2024 banning individuals under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms and requiring these platforms to verify the age of everyone logging in. The law’s initial list of restricted platforms includes Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Threads, Kick, Threads, and Twitch. Other platforms, […]

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Scott Lincicome Looking back on this year (as one does in December), there’s been an undeniably huge amount of virtual ink—from Capitolism and everyone else—devoted to U.S. tariff policy. This, of course, is perfectly understandable given the major recent changes to said policy, the tariffs’ substantial economic, political, and diplomatic implications, and the fact that a certain president can’t stop talking about all of it. Indeed, with average U.S. tariff rates now having reached historically high levels via […]

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In The Gay Science (1882), German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously proclaimed the death of God. Recognizing the enormous implications of secularization and the uprooting of Christianity’s “fundamental concept” (faith in God) and the resulting moral confusion, he exclaimed: “God is dead! Continue Reading…

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Colin Grabow and Mark Coleman Jones Act defenders have been getting away with spreading false information for years — indeed, for more than a century. , But what really hurts is when critics of this harmful 1920 federal maritime law get their facts wrong, too. One of the most common mistakes Jones Act critics make is to assert that the law prevents foreign ships from transporting goods from foreign ports to U.S. states or territories such as Alaska, […]

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