The War Against Cash
By Ross Clark
Review
Despite constant promotion of a “cashless future,” we must be wary of surrendering physical currency. Financial institutions eagerly push contactless cards, mobile payments, and bank transfers under the guise of convenience. However, as Ross Clark powerfully contends, eliminating cash serves commercial and governmental interests, not ours.
Companies want to monitor our spending habits through electronic payments. Governments want to control the economy by removing paper money. While electronic payments can be useful, we should be alarmed at the prospect of losing the right to use cash. If we willingly go cashless for expediency, we may regret relinquishing that freedom. Clark’s new book compellingly argues that preserving the option of cash protects our interests against those who would exploit a solely digital economy.
2084
By Prof. John Lennox
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
Review
December marks the 80th anniversary of one of the great novels of the 20th century, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. Together with Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, and The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, it changed the way a generation thought about Soviet Communism. As George Steiner once observed, Koestler’s career “touches, with uncanny precision, on the hopes and nightmares, on the places and events, which have given the 20th century its flavor.”
Free to Choose
By Milton & Rose Friedman
Review
A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.
There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality, this ideology championed by America’s business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.
Darkness at Noon
By Arthur Koestler
WHY ARTHUR KOESTLER’s DARKNESS AT NOON STILL MATTERS EIGHTY YEARS ON?
Review
December marks the 80th anniversary of one of the great novels of the 20th century, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. Together with Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, and The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, it changed the way a generation thought about Soviet Communism. As George Steiner once observed, Koestler’s career “touches, with uncanny precision, on the hopes and nightmares, on the places and events, which have given the 20th century its flavor.”