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  1. For freedom’s sake, rate Hong Kong

    The Heritage Foundation has dropped Hong Kong from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. ...

  2. Freedom under attack in India

    Appeared in the Policy Times, January 30, 2020 To quell a nationwide backlash against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that India’s parliament passed last month, Indian authorities denied people the right to protest and raise their voices. In doing ...

  3. ‘Mini Schengen’—moving toward freedom and markets

    French President Emmanuel Macron’s spearheading opposition to block European Union accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia during the European Council’s recent fall meeting is not only dangerously and severely undermining the ...

  4. The tide of global freedom is receding—but there’s hope

    Appeared in the National Newswatch, January 25, 2019 Is the world losing its taste for freedom as we move further into 2019? Two recent reports confirm the perception that freedom is under attack globally. The Human Freedom Index, a joint project of ...

  5. The Full Measure of Freedom

    Appeared in American Outlook, Winter 2015 The Fraser Institute has embarked on an ambitious and important effort to create a comprehensive index of human freedom. As a trailblazer in the study and measurement of economic freedom, the Fraser Institute has ...

  6. Economic opportunity may be antidote to radicalism

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald The recent killing of two Canadian soldiers by self-professed, radicalized young men who became enamoured with a violent interpretation of Islam will bring up multiple assertions about the “root cause” for such attacks. Some ...

  7. Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

    Appeared in The Independent Review, Summer 2014 Without an objective measure of freedom, it is impossible to determine whether an action leads to increases or decreases in freedom, whether it lends stability to freedom or causes instability, or whether ...

  8. Want to stop “illegal” immigrants from Central America? Copy Chile

    Appeared in GlobeandMail.com The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador just visited U.S. President Barack Obama to urge him to change course in combatting the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States. The three heads of state ...

  9. Measuring Freedom around the World

    Appeared in American Magazine Online Existing attempts to measure economic freedom have long been imperfect — blurring various definitions of freedom, using subjective rather than objective measures, and either failing to account for economic freedom or ...

  10. Towards A Worldwide Index of Human Freedom

    The quest People have been seeking freedom for millennia but not freedom for all. Slaves, serfs, women, outsiders, and the defeated were not included. That changed in the last few centuries as the circle of those deserving freedom expanded. Evolution ...