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05 Oct The Pope Just Called Private Property a ‘Secondary Right.’ He Couldn’t Be More Wrong

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Since becoming the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis has not shied away from the political domain. On Sunday, the religious leader used the COVID-19 pandemic to renew his criticisms of free-market capitalism. “The fragility of world systems in the face of the pandemic...

05 Oct Capitalism and its Critics (with Mike Munger)

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00:07 Trevor Burrus: Welcome to Free Thoughts. I’m Trevor Burris. 00:09 Aaron Powell: And I’m Aaron Powell. 00:10 Trevor Burrus: Joining us today is Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. His new book, a collection of essays, is called Is...

03 Oct Some Links

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetJeffrey Tucker mourns the passing of the great Wall Street Journal editor and columnist George Melloan. A slice: It didn’t surprise me at all that Melloan was an anti-lockdowner. He was an old-school liberal who believed “markets are like Mother Nature, not to be messed...

03 Oct Solzhenitsyn’s Journey From Oppression to Independence

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The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), one of the great writers of the 20th century, helped to inform the world about the evils of the Gulag, the Soviet prison-camp system, in books such as “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “The Gulag...

03 Oct Why Freedom Matters

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What if I told you that some people were better than others? I don’t mean better at tennis or better at singing or better at math. I mean a better breed of person, entitled by nature to exercise authority over you. I’m guessing you would reject...

02 Oct Everything that’s wrong with Dick Costolo’s tweet in 1,531 characters

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Woke capitalism went into overdrive on Wednesday, when a former Twitter CEO seemingly endorsed the full-scale liquidation of entrepreneurs who refuse to bring politics into the workplace. Dick Costolo served as COO of Twitter before becoming its CEO from 2010 to 2015. On September 30, he...

02 Oct Is America in Decline?

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Editorial note: this essay originally appeared in the Des Moines Register, Sept 1990, and a revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3. It serves as a helpful reminder of where this country was 30 years ago. The headlines make it hard not...

02 Oct Entrepreneurship Is Skyrocketing During the Pandemic

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The pandemic and related government lockdowns have caused widespread economic and social disruption over the past several months. There is much to despair about, as tens of thousands of small businesses have permanently closed and rates of depression and suicide rise. Yet, there are signs...

02 Oct Setting Up a “Creative Oasis” | Sean W. Malone

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Monty Python writer and performer, John Cleese, said that the solution to the problem of getting stuck in the closed mode is to intentionally build what he calls a “creative oasis.” The idea is to create a hard separation from task-based distractions, calm the mind, and...

02 Oct Hollywood’s a Mess, But There’s Another Option

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We’ve spent a lot of time on this series talking about the effects of coronavirus lockdowns on the economy in general as well as the entertainment industry, specifically. The economic burden has been devastating to many, and it’s impacting other areas of our lives in...

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