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26 Oct

Posted at 19:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

The US Department of Justice has filed a complaint against “Monopolist Google for Violating Antitrust Laws.” Google is the biggest player in the world of internet search and the company has come under fire in recent weeks for allegedly rigging search results for political reasons,...

26 Oct

Posted at 19:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

(Don Boudreaux) TweetGeorge Will explains that America has already been injected with a large dose of socialism, and the dosage of this poison is increasing. A slice: Wading waist-deep into political policies, the Fed is adopting, Eberstadt says, “the role of managing and even micromanaging the...

26 Oct

Posted at 19:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

On “Persuasion” (the newsletter-think tank launched by Yascha Mounk after the Harper Letter) there is an excerpt of Ivan Krastev’s forthcoming book, Is it Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic. Krastev struggles with the impact of the pandemic of different political regimes. His starting point is...

26 Oct

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This semester I volunteered to teach both of my classes in-person.  I’ve also given four public talks in Texas, and one at GMU.  All of these venues had mask mandates.  And in each case, I noticed an eerie pattern: Almost no one talks to each other...

18 Oct

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Early in the pandemic I advised readers to zone out, take a break, and read fiction and other works of art that have stood the test of time. There’s only so much crazy we can deal with and there’s only so much mental benefits to...

16 Oct

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Letter from 12 Conservative peers to The Times: Sir, It is now clear that a policy of lockdown failed to bring the virus under control while having crippling economic and social side effects. Sweden has achieved a lower death rate from Covid-19 than the UK, with...

14 Oct

Posted at 23:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

One especially comical feature of the accusation that AIER’s opposition to covid lockdowns springs from a 2018 contribution that AIER received from the Koch Foundation is that Tyler Cowen and the Mercatus Center this past Spring awarded funds to Imperial College modeler Neil Ferguson. The...

14 Oct

Posted at 20:45h in Uncategorized by

Some of the folks behind The Chosen, one of Hollywood's earliest "equity" crowdfunded shows, will distribute an animated series based on The Tuttle Twins, a group of children's books that promote capitalism and free markets and decry socialism, Newsweek learned on Tuesday.The best-selling 11 books...