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13 Jul Video of the Day: Thomas Sowell on “Life, Liberty & Levin”

Posted at 16:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Dr. Thomas Sowell was Mark Levin’s guest last night on Life, Liberty & Levin to discuss the current situation in America (cancel culture, Marxist BLM and the ubiquitous caving to their demands, defunding the police, soaring crime and murder rates, reaching a point of no...

10 Jul Why Savings Are So Critical to Improving the Standard of Living

Posted at 10:41h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Among the essential concepts Mises analyzes and dwells upon in Human Action (1949), there is the notion of capital. Mises conceives of capital as a factor of production intrinsically different from land and labor. In fact, capital is not nature given—its total amount increases or...

10 Jul A Green Minimum Wage

Posted at 10:39h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Before America launches into a New Green Deal, it ought to consider what happened to the Old Green Deal. Basically, the government killed it in favor of urbanism and the agricultural-industrial processed food complex. It’s time to rethink those policies and solve homelessness at the...

10 Jul When ‘Diversity Training’ Is All About Feeding Racism

Posted at 10:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Last month, the city of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an e-mail inviting “white city employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in . . . white supremacy” and...

08 Jul Mr. Jones (and the Execrable Walter Duranty)

Posted at 21:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHow can I have spent 43 years immersed in the literature of liberalism and have never heard, until just a few days ago, of the heroic Gareth Jones? Jones (1905-1935) is the man who exposed the lies that New York Times reporter –...

05 Jul Safety First is a Bad Ideology

Posted at 16:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

When you walk out of your house, or enter the public street, you are on shared ground, a community space. During the pandemic of 2020, community spaces that are private venues, like Disney, have closed down just as often as community spaces that are public...

05 Jul The Anticapitalist Mentality

Posted at 16:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Not being a fan of the movie Titanic, I was unaware of this anecdote. I ran into it reading Franco Moretti’s The Bourgeois. Between History and Literature. It seems to me a clear example of that “anti-capitalist mentality” we often talk about, and particularly of...

04 Jul Human History Is an Ever-Expanding Circle of Empathy

Posted at 22:45h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

There are many different ways to look at the history of U.S. race relations. One extreme, for example, compares America’s past and present state of race relations with a future when all of America’s remaining imperfections will have been ironed out. Let’s call that the...

04 Jul Why You Should Read “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” to Your Kids | Kerry McDonald

Posted at 22:42h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

As families and friends gather together throughout the US this week to celebrate liberty, we rightfully give a nod to Thomas Jefferson who authored the Declaration of Independence. Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, it proclaimed our independence from British rule,...

02 Jul Voluntary Exchange

Posted at 15:33h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces a life journey that started with the gift of a single library card and culminated at the esteemed Hoover Institution. The story of one of our era’s most controversial authors on race, history,...

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