Author: one80Admin

15 Mar Leave the Choice of Restrictions to the Market-AIER

Posted at 13:58h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Coffee shops in Knoxville, Tennessee, are a microcosm of the world’s reaction to Covid-19. A Starbucks here features a drive-through stacked several cars deep, hour after hour. Most of the people waiting patiently in their cars wear masks. Inside, the shop...

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15 Mar How Liberalism Can Survive Left-Right Polarization-AIER

Posted at 13:55h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

The rise of political extremes in America, both left and right, poses a particular challenge for those of us who prefer liberty over government control. It’s not only in the US; the same grows in the UK, Europe, Latin America, and...

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15 Mar Ep 39: Good talk: examining the design principles of a good conversation

Posted at 13:54h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

EPISODE 39: DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD CONVERSATION (THURSDAY, MARCH 18 AT 1:00 PM ET) “If the American experiment is to succeed, we must improve the quality of our political, academic and civic conversations.” — Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright. On Episode 39 of “The Future of Democracy,”...

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15 Mar Welcome to Word Tyranny and Cultural Balkanization

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

America has entered into a new era of thought control. Back in the 1960s, there was a determined campaign by many conservatives to resist the free speech movement symbolically headquartered on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Then, the idea was to respect...

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15 Mar The One-Year Anniversary of Lockdowns

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

One year ago, between March 13 and 16, 2020, began what most of us would agree were the most difficult days of our lives. We thought our rights and liberties were more or less secure or could only be hobbled on the margin. We took...

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15 Mar The Woke Award Shows

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Award shows, like the Oscars, are beating themselves up for their history of white supremacy. Future awards will go only to films that meet diversity quotas. "These awards just shouldn't even be seen as legitimate," musician Eric July tells me. "It's supposed to be based...

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15 Mar Semi-annual Time Changes Are a Pointless, Disruptive, and Expensive Annual Ritual

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This Sunday, March 14, we will all take part in a pointless, disruptive, and expensive annual ritual. We (unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, or most other countries in the world) will set our clocks forward one hour and move from...

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15 Mar How I Survived a Year in a Weird and Empty Manhattan

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A year ago, virtually all of the nearly 4 million people who swamp Manhattan below 60th Street each day deserted the central city — except me. I am one of a handful of people — less than 30,000, in a space that would fit six...

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15 Mar Bitcoin Bros Rediscovering Our Monetary Past

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

All eyes on bitcoin, it seems, as the price hits new all-time-highs, its proponents celebrate, and the economists who have long pronounced it dead and useless scratch their head in confusion (any “bubble” pronouncements as of late?) “The discomforting reality for the early idealists,” wrote Izabella...

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15 Mar Non-COVID Death Epidemic of the Future

Posted at 13:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Consider the possibility that science is a process of questions and answers. Not all answers are correct and not all questions are valid. Yet all need to be considered and evaluated separately and carefully. Within that context we broach the subject of this COVID debacle...

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