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Southeastern Legal Foundation Applauds Department of Education's Actions to Stop Continued Title IX Violations in Kansas Schools
ROSWELL, Georgia, June 13 -- The Southeastern Legal Foundation issued the following news release on June 11, 2026:
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Southeastern Legal Foundation applauds Department of Education's actions to stop continued Title IX violations in Kansas schools
Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) applauds the recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued Letters of Impending Enforcement Action to three Kansas school districts including Shawnee Mission School District for failing to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
SLF President
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ROSWELL, Georgia, June 13 -- The Southeastern Legal Foundation issued the following news release on June 11, 2026:
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Southeastern Legal Foundation applauds Department of Education's actions to stop continued Title IX violations in Kansas schools
Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) applauds the recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued Letters of Impending Enforcement Action to three Kansas school districts including Shawnee Mission School District for failing to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
SLF PresidentKim Hermann applauded OCR's announcement:
We are extremely thankful for this strong action by the Department of Education to hold Kansas schools accountable for not complying with Title IX. Too many schools across the country are ignoring Title IX which Congress put in place to protect our girls and ensure they have the same educational opportunities as boys. Now, in the name of Woke and gender ideology, we see schools like Shawnee Mission School District where our clients first grade daughter experienced years of serious emotional distress after continuously encountering a biological male student identifying as female in the girls' bathroom.
When faced with complying with Title IX or continuing to allow a biological boy to invade girls' private spaces, the district chose to continue to violate federal law and cause shame to its young girls who simply want to use the bathroom in privacy. This action by the Department sends a message to all school districts, that this can no longer happen. Schools need to be a safe space for students where they only have to worry about their classes, not uncomfortable encounters like our clients' daughter went through. We sincerely hope that this move by the department of education will encourage more parents to stand up and fight for their children that may be going through a similar instance.
This recent move from the Department of Education follows a joint complaint filed by SLF and Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI) to OCR against the school district, challenging its unlawful policies which allowed students to access sex-separated facilities based on gender identity and enforced the use of preferred names and pronouns among students. The complaint was filed on behalf of Kansas parents and their first-grade daughter who encountered a biological male identifying as a female in the girl's restroom. As a result of the experience, the first grader has expressed significant emotional distress and has been forced to use staff bathrooms separate from the student bathrooms to protect her privacy.
In April 2026, OCR determined that Shawnee Mission School District violated Title IX by allowing biological boys to use girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms. Unfortunately, the school district refused to stop its unlawful actions and biological boys continued to use girls' bathrooms through the end of the school year. The Department of Education is now taking action.
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Original text here: https://slfliberty.org/southeastern-legal-foundation-applauds-department-of-educations-actions-to-stop-continued-title-ix-violations-in-kansas-schools/
Freedom From Religion Foundation: Pride Month Backlash Reveals Coordinated Christian Nationalist Campaign
MADISON, Wisconsin, June 13 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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Pride Month backlash reveals coordinated Christian nationalist campaign
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is castigating a coordinated effort that several conservative states have launched to undermine Pride Month.
Governors in Florida, Indiana, Alabama and Utah, among other states, have, respectively, issued proclamations declaring June to be "Faith and Family Month," "Nuclear Family Month," "Strong Families Month" or "Fidelity Month." While disingenuously framed as celebrations
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MADISON, Wisconsin, June 13 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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Pride Month backlash reveals coordinated Christian nationalist campaign
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is castigating a coordinated effort that several conservative states have launched to undermine Pride Month.
Governors in Florida, Indiana, Alabama and Utah, among other states, have, respectively, issued proclamations declaring June to be "Faith and Family Month," "Nuclear Family Month," "Strong Families Month" or "Fidelity Month." While disingenuously framed as celebrationsof families and faith, these governmental proclamations clearly are intended as a rebuke to Pride Month and its recognition of LGBTQ+ Americans.
"These proclamations are not about celebrating families," says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. "They are about using government authority to elevate a particular religious and political vision of family while signaling that LGBTQ-plus families, single-parent families, blended families and nonreligious Americans are somehow less worthy of recognition."
The most blatant example is Indiana Gov. Mike Braun's proclamation of June as "Nuclear Family Month," which defines the family as "one husband, one wife, and any children." The proclamation calls this "God's design for the family structure" and "the foundation of society since the creation of the world." Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith embraced the culture-war motivation behind the proclamation, posting an illustrated version online proclaiming, "Take back the rainbow!"
Tennessee similarly designated June as "Nuclear Family Month," declaring that the nuclear family is "God's perfect design for humanity" and warning that it is "under attack." Utah Gov. Spencer Cox quietly declared June "Fidelity Month," citing faith, family and patriotism and calling for Americans to "rededicate" themselves to those values. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis designated June "Faith and Family Month," emphasizing Christianity's role in American society and encouraging faith-centered celebrations throughout the month. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey proclaimed June "Strong Families Month," praising households led by "a father and a mother" and suggesting that nontraditional families are responsible for various social problems.
The common thread running through these proclamations is the assumption that the government should endorse a particular religion-suffused view of family life.
"The government has no business declaring that any family structure is 'God's preferred arrangement,'" Gaylor says. "Public officials should not use the machinery of the state to promote their private religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality and gender. This not only violates the spirit of state/church separation, but excludes millions of good Americans, whether LGBTQ+ or those among the 29 percent of adult Americans who are nonreligious, from full civic belonging."
FFRF notes that these proclamations are part of a broader Christian nationalist movement seeking to redefine American identity in explicitly religious terms. Increasingly, extremist political leaders are using government proclamations, legislation and public institutions to advance the notion that America is fundamentally Christian, that traditional gender roles are divinely mandated and that LGBTQ+ equality represents a threat to society.
Pride Month exists because LGBTQ+ Americans spent generations facing criminalization, discrimination, family rejection and government hostility. Yet rather than acknowledging that history, some elected officials are using June to celebrate the very institutions and belief systems that were often used to justify that discrimination.
FFRF emphasizes that families come in many forms. They include married or unmarried couples, single parents, adoptive families, grandparents raising grandchildren, blended families, as well as LGBTQ+ families. A secular government serves all of them equally.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to defending the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters relating to nontheism. With about 41,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Original text here: https://ffrf.org/news/releases/pride-month-backlash-reveals-coordinated-christian-nationalist-campaign/
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WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reverse District Court's Refusal to Enforce Arbitration Agreement
WASHINGTON, June 12 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reverse District Court's Refusal to Enforce Arbitration Agreement
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"Allowing plaintiffs to evade signed arbitration agreements by claiming they never read them would destroy the certainty that written contracts exist to provide."
-Cory Andrews, WLF General Counsel & Vice President of Litigation
Click HERE to read WLF's brief.
WASHINGTON, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse
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WASHINGTON, June 12 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reverse District Court's Refusal to Enforce Arbitration Agreement
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"Allowing plaintiffs to evade signed arbitration agreements by claiming they never read them would destroy the certainty that written contracts exist to provide."
-Cory Andrews, WLF General Counsel & Vice President of Litigation
Click HERE to read WLF's brief.
WASHINGTON, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reversea district court order denying arbitration. In its amicus brief, WLF contends that the decision nullifies the parties' express contractual assents and exhibits the very hostility to arbitration that the Federal Arbitration Act forbids.
The case arises from a putative class action by investors against Equity Trust Company, custodian of their self-directed IRAs. Every plaintiff signed an application with two prominent acknowledgments-one in a blue "IMPORTANT" banner and the other in bold type-that they had received, read, and understood the IRA Custodial Account Agreement, including its arbitration provision. Yet the district court denied Equity Trust's motion to compel arbitration, crediting plaintiffs' post-hoc declarations that they never saw or read the clause.
Urging reversal, WLF argues that the district court rewrote California's incorporation-by-reference standard, improperly elevated subjective testimony over objective manifestations of assent, and abused its discretion by deciding the motion on a ground the parties never raised or briefed. Unless corrected on appeal, these errors threaten to convert every signed contract into a revocable promise and expose businesses to unbounded litigation risk.
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Original text here: https://www.wlf.org/2026/06/12/communicating/wlf-urges-ninth-circuit-to-reverse-district-courts-refusal-to-enforce-arbitration-agreement/
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: NHS Prostate Cancer Treatment to Cut Radiotherapy Sessions From 20 to Five
LONDON, England, June 12 -- The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust issued the following news:
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New NHS prostate cancer treatment to cut radiotherapy sessions from 20 to five
The new treatment rollout follows evidence from the international PACE-B trial, which was led by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
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Researchers at The Royal Marsden have welcomed the announcement that thousands of men with localised prostate cancer will now be offered a shorter course of high-precision radiotherapy on the NHS, following results from the PACE-B clinical trial led by The Royal
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LONDON, England, June 12 -- The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust issued the following news:
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New NHS prostate cancer treatment to cut radiotherapy sessions from 20 to five
The new treatment rollout follows evidence from the international PACE-B trial, which was led by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
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Researchers at The Royal Marsden have welcomed the announcement that thousands of men with localised prostate cancer will now be offered a shorter course of high-precision radiotherapy on the NHS, following results from the PACE-B clinical trial led by The RoyalMarsden and The Institute of Cancer Research, London (ICR).
The new NHS England policy will make stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) available to eligible men with low and intermediate-risk localised prostate cancer. The treatment uses advanced imaging and treatment planning techniques to deliver radiation with pinpoint accuracy, minimising damage to surrounding healthy tissue. It delivers five high doses of radiation to patients over one to two weeks, compared to standard radiotherapy, which delivers more moderate doses over a much longer period of time - usually around 20 sessions for patients in the UK, which can take up to one month.
The decision follows evidence from the international PACE-B trial, which was led by The Royal Marsden and the ICR. The study compared standard radiotherapy with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy in men with localised prostate cancer and found that delivering higher doses of radiation in just five treatment sessions was as safe and effective as conventional treatment, while significantly reducing the time patients spend receiving treatment.
Findings have had international impact on clinical practice for prostate cancer treatment
"We are delighted that eligible prostate cancer patients across England will now be able to benefit from this treatment following NHS England's announcement," said Chief Investigator of the PACE-B trial, Professor Nicholas van As, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Professor in Precision Prostate Radiotherapy at The Institute of Cancer Research, London.
"The news demonstrates the value of clinical research in improving cancer care. At The Royal Marsden and the ICR, we are focused on developing smarter, better and kinder treatments for patients across the UK and around the world.
"The PACE-B trial was designed to answer an important question: can we safely deliver prostate radiotherapy in far fewer treatment sessions without compromising outcomes? The results showed that we can. Delivering treatment in just five sessions was as safe and effective as conventional radiotherapy, while significantly reducing the burden of treatment for patients. The findings helped establish the evidence base for wider adoption of the treatment and have informed clinical practice internationally."
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Original text here: https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/new-nhs-prostate-cancer-treatment-cut-radiotherapy-sessions-20-five
Reason Foundation Issues Commentary: Tax Reform is Essential to Restore Prosperity in Argentina
LOS ANGELES, California, June 12 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary by Research Director Geoffrey Lawrence and Ivan Cachanosky, chief of economics at Fundacion Libertad y Progreso:
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Tax reform is essential to restore prosperity in Argentina
An excessive tax burden drives workers and businesses into informality, but with changes the country can regain the wealth it once had.
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Taxes in Argentina are so high that they drive workers and businesses out of the legal economy. Javier Milei was elected with the promise of ending chronic deficits, taming inflation, and restoring
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LOS ANGELES, California, June 12 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary by Research Director Geoffrey Lawrence and Ivan Cachanosky, chief of economics at Fundacion Libertad y Progreso:
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Tax reform is essential to restore prosperity in Argentina
An excessive tax burden drives workers and businesses into informality, but with changes the country can regain the wealth it once had.
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Taxes in Argentina are so high that they drive workers and businesses out of the legal economy. Javier Milei was elected with the promise of ending chronic deficits, taming inflation, and restoringgrowth. He quickly delivered on the first two points of that promise. Monetary stability and fiscal balance were necessary conditions for growth, but they are not sufficient to restore Argentina's legacy as a prosperous society.
The real obstacle preventing sustained growth is a tax system that suffocates formal activity and pushes nearly half of the workforce into informality. Of the 155 taxes that fall on businesses and families, just seven account for 87% of total revenue. The World Bank has estimated that these overlapping taxes create an average effective burden exceeding 106% of the earnings of a typical business. This is the second-highest effective corporate tax rate in the world, behind only Comoros, a tiny island nation off the southeast coast of Africa. This level of taxation destroys any incentive to invest or undertake entrepreneurship and makes full compliance impossible.
Employer and employee social security contributions together amount to between 35% and 41% of wages. On top of that, registered workers must pay income tax. These levies create a tax wedge that leads many workers to conclude they can improve their take-home pay by accepting informal arrangements and hiding their income, even if their nominal wages are lower than those of registered, taxpaying workers.
Millions of Argentines have taken refuge in the margins of society to escape these overlapping taxes, emptying the tax base. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), 44.1% of the employed population works in the informal economy. While this may be a rational choice in the face of such perverse incentives, the resulting macroeconomic structure limits opportunities for growth. Informal or non-compliant companies have limited access to credit and few incentives to invest in machinery or train workers, since their main goal is to conceal their activity.
Our research compares INDEC household survey data with variations in provincial gross receipts taxes and shows that higher tax pressure is strongly associated with increased labor informality. In construction, for example, each additional percentage point of taxes corresponds to an 8.5% increase in informality, even after accounting for mitigating factors. This means that every tax increase generates less total revenue because people shift to informality very quickly. In theory, tax cuts could also increase public revenue if households and businesses respond by returning to compliance.
Lowering taxes does not have to be an act of faith. Lawrence, the lead author, recommends a gradual, data-driven approach to tax reform that gives the private sector time to respond before moving to subsequent phases. This approach ensures the stability of public revenue while the tax structure gradually becomes simpler and more rational.
Phase 1 would replace provincial gross receipts taxes with a simple consumer sales tax and reduce the national VAT to 10% in a revenue-neutral manner. At the same time, the revenue-sharing system should be restructured to align spending authority with the political responsibility for raising revenue. Provinces would directly administer and collect many of their own taxes, and some benefit from a transitional stabilization fund to maintain current revenue levels. Milei recently discussed this idea in broad terms.
Phase 2 would progressively eliminate distortive taxes on trade so that Argentina can integrate into global markets. Phase 3 would implement longer-term rate reductions on income tax and social security contributions.
Along with these reforms, the tax amnesty program included in the labor modernization law passed in March 2026 will be a key catalyst for bringing Argentines back into the formal economy. The amnesty allows a company that hires a new registered employee on whose behalf no social security contributions have been made in the last 12 months (an indicator of prior informality) to pay only 2% in employer contributions for up to four years of that employee's formal employment.
Together, these changes could bring Argentines out of the shadows where they hid from an unworkable tax regime. More fundamentally, they could represent a profound cultural shift, because Argentines would no longer feel compelled to conceal their lives and their income. Mutual trust could once again become a defining feature of Argentine life.
Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world. It can be again. It only needs the right policy environment.
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Ivan Cachanosky is chief of economics at Fundacion Libertad y Progreso.
Geoffrey Lawrence is research director at Reason Foundation.
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Original text here: https://reason.org/commentary/tax-reform-is-essential-to-restore-prosperity-in-argentina/
Health Foundation: Latest NHS Performance Figures Underline Need for Robust NHS Workforce Plan
LONDON, England, June 12 -- The Health Foundation issued the following statement by Deputy Director of Policy Tim Gardner:
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Latest NHS performance figures underline need for robust NHS workforce plan
Responding to the latest NHS performance statistics, Tim Gardner, Deputy Director of Policy at the Health Foundation, said:
'Today's figures reflect a huge effort from NHS staff to maintain hospital care against the backdrop of a challenging month, including a heatwave and industrial action by resident doctors.
'The waiting list for routine hospital treatment increased to 7.22 million in
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LONDON, England, June 12 -- The Health Foundation issued the following statement by Deputy Director of Policy Tim Gardner:
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Latest NHS performance figures underline need for robust NHS workforce plan
Responding to the latest NHS performance statistics, Tim Gardner, Deputy Director of Policy at the Health Foundation, said:
'Today's figures reflect a huge effort from NHS staff to maintain hospital care against the backdrop of a challenging month, including a heatwave and industrial action by resident doctors.
'The waiting list for routine hospital treatment increased to 7.22 million inApril, with a slight worsening of waiting times and the number of very long waits following rapid gains in March ahead of the interim targets.
'Urgent and emergency care continued to face severe pressure in May. 75.7% of patients waited less than four hours in A&E departments, which remains short of the NHS's interim target to hit 78% by March 2026. Today's data also highlight, for the first time, the full scale of 'unacceptable' corridor care in NHS hospitals, with nearly 3,000 instances per day of patients spending at least 45 minutes in spaces not appropriate for clinical care in May.
'To deliver on the government's ambitions to cut waiting times, end corridor care and implement wider changes to improve care outside of hospital, the NHS needs to be able to recruit and retain a highly skilled workforce backed by strong management. Ensuring the upcoming workforce plan is robust and credible will be critical to the success of the 10-Year Health Plan.'
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Original text here: https://www.health.org.uk/media-office/press-releases/latest-nhs-performance-figures-underline-need-for-robust-nhs-workforce-plan
Foundation for Economic Education Posts Commentary: Why 'Nostalgia Economics' Is the Most Dangerous Modern Ideology
DETROIT, Michigan, June 12 -- The Foundation for Economic Education issued the following commentary by research associate Mani Basharzad:
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Nostalgia
The most dangerous economic ideology.
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If someone asked me what the most dangerous economic ideology is, many would expect an Austrian to give a typical answer: Marxism, socialism, or Modern Monetary Theory. Yet I believe there is another way of thinking that is even more pervasive. It is not a coherent body of ideas like those ideologies. Rather, it is a sentiment so widespread and socially accepted that it threatens not merely economic
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DETROIT, Michigan, June 12 -- The Foundation for Economic Education issued the following commentary by research associate Mani Basharzad:
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Nostalgia
The most dangerous economic ideology.
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If someone asked me what the most dangerous economic ideology is, many would expect an Austrian to give a typical answer: Marxism, socialism, or Modern Monetary Theory. Yet I believe there is another way of thinking that is even more pervasive. It is not a coherent body of ideas like those ideologies. Rather, it is a sentiment so widespread and socially accepted that it threatens not merely economicfreedom, but our very understanding of progress itself. I call it "nostalgia economics."
Recently, the singer Sting suggested that the rise of toxic masculinity is partly the result of the "loss of manual jobs," claiming that because many men no longer use their hands and physical strength in their daily work, unhealthy masculine traits are on the rise. Like many commentators on the political left, he also blamed Margaret Thatcher for Britain's economic transformation. "Britain's wealth was created in the coalfields and the steel towns and the mill towns and the shipyards," Sting said. "All of those skill sets were thrown on the scrapheap... for Thatcher's dream of a service economy."
This is nostalgia economics in action. A global celebrity whose music can be streamed instantly on another continent, who earns income through digital platforms, and whose career depends on modern communications and services, criticizes the very service economy that makes his success possible.
A person in thrall to nostalgia economics will take the blessings of progress for granted while romanticizing a past that never truly existed. Imagine living in the world of Charles Dickens: you would not have had access to a typewriter for much of your life, if at all, since it was only commercialized in the late 19th century. More importantly, you would not have had access to electricity. The conveniences we now consider basic would have been unimaginable luxuries.
The economic historian Norman Stone illustrated the extraordinary pace of modern progress through the experience of the novelist Henry James:
In 1895 the novelist Henry James acquired electric lighting; in 1896 he rode a bicycle; in 1897 he wrote on a typewriter; in 1898 he saw a cinematograph. Within very few years, he could have had a Freudian analysis, travelled in an aircraft, understood the principles of the jet-engine or even of space-travel.
Had Sting been alive in 1890, a world tour would have looked very different. A journey from London to New York would have taken more than a week rather than a few hours. International audiences, instant communication, and global entertainment markets would have been beyond imagination.
The glorification of manual labor is one of the most overrated ideas in modern political discourse. This tendency is not confined to the left. Ambitions to revive manufacturing employment through government policy often draw on the same nostalgic impulse. But what exactly are we trying to return to?
Perhaps literature offers a more honest answer than politics. Oscar Wilde observed that "all unintellectual labour, all monotonous, dull labour" involved unpleasant conditions. He went even further, commenting that "there is nothing necessarily dignified about manual labour at all, and most of it is absolutely degrading."
The reality of industrial labor was far harsher than many modern observers imagine. In Britain, workplace fatalities have fallen dramatically over the last century: fatal injuries to employees dropped from around 4,400 a year early in the 20th century to around 200 a year by the end of the century. Coal mining, one of the occupations most frequently romanticized today and the first industry Sting evoked, exposed workers to constant danger and disease. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, coal workers' pneumoconiosis ("black lung") claimed well over a thousand lives annually. What would a laborer enduring dangerous conditions, long hours, and chronic health risks have given for an air-conditioned office job?
One reason nostalgia economics is so persuasive is that we view the past through the lens of the present. That's why all the characters in historical dramas have healthy teeth! As the historian Niall Ferguson recently remarked, one of his pieces of advice to aspiring historians is never to watch historical dramas.
The same mistake occurs in economics. We imagine that the comforts of modern life existed in the past, minus the anxieties of the present. We recall a perceived community of earlier eras while forgetting the poverty, danger, and limitations that accompanied it. Human beings seem naturally inclined to recall the best aspects of the past and focus on the threats of the present. This tendency helps explain much of the hostility toward markets.
Friedrich Hayek argued that Adam Smith's great insight was that civilization advanced when people moved beyond the face-to-face relationships of small communities. In tribal societies, individuals primarily served those they knew personally. In a market society, however, people respond to price signals that connect them with millions of strangers. As Hayek wrote:
The practices by which the great commercial centres had become rich were shown to enable the individual to do much more good and to serve much greater needs than if he let himself be guided by the observed needs and capacities of his neighbours.
The market order makes what Adam Smith called the "Great Society" possible. Through prices and the division of labor, individuals cooperate with countless others whom they have never met and probably will never meet. Prosperity emerges not because anyone planned it, but because millions of people respond to signals that coordinate their activities.
The tension is that our brains evolved for and within small, face-to-face communities, while modern prosperity depends on participation in a vast and impersonal market order--what Roger Scruton called a "society of strangers." We are naturally drawn toward the world we can see and understand directly, even when that world was poorer, less healthy, and offered fewer opportunities.
The irony, of course, is that those who actually worked in mines, mills, and factories often welcomed the opportunity to leave them. The movement from rural to urban areas is an example of that. Yet many of the loudest critics of the service economy are people whose prosperity--even their capacity to criticize it in the first place--depends entirely upon it.
Nostalgia economics invites us to look backward. The market economy, by contrast, is the engine that has enabled humanity to move forward. The greatest danger is not that we fail to appreciate the past, but that we romanticize it so much that we forget how much progress has already been achieved.
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Mani Basharzad is a Research Associate at the Institute of Economic Affairs and an Asia Freedom Fellow at the London School of Economics. His work has been published by the New York Post, National Review, The Spectator, and Daily Express.
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Original text here: https://fee.org/articles/nostalgia/
