The Gilder Fellows Seminar on Economics and Entrepreneurship is going virtual this summer, and is open to all ages! The program—typically reserved for students and young professionals—features personal instruction from Discovery Institute scholars such as George Gilder, Jay Richards, Chris Rufo, Gale Pooley, and Scott Powell. We are pleased to offer a special 50% off early bird price through June 30 with the promo code EarlyB2020. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity! 

Writing for City Journal, Christopher Rufo explains how the credibility of public health officials has eroded over the last three months. "Scientists, like everyone else, are entitled to their personal opinions. But the fallout from the lockdowns and protests suggests that progressivism has become the default ideology of the public-health community; science is now a weaponized form of politics."

The coronavirus lockdowns have come at an immense human toll. But were they worth it? There is growing evidence that there is not much relationship between the severity of government imposed lockdowns and excess deaths. Are we looking at one of the most massive leadership blunders in history? Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Bill Walton discusses on the newest episode of his vidcast with guest Jim Agresti. 

Writing in his "Daily Prophecy," George Gilder notes that "Both on left and right, economists fail to understand that a gold standard would not reduce the money supply but expand it, preventing deflation as well as inflation. Today, we are suffering from a historic commodity deflation. The crash of 2000 was caused not by inflation, but by a massive appreciation of the dollar in a historic four-year deflation."