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20 Jan Think on Whatsoever Is Good and True – Discourse

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Pitchforks in one hand and iPhones in the other, populists have been on the march all across the globe. They are spurred by an information revolution that has undermined their faith in elites and elite institutions. Whatever their particular cause or demands, and regardless of...

20 Jan Classical Liberalism and the Common Good – Discourse

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In today’s episode of Discourse Magazine Podcast, Eileen Norcross, the vice president of policy research and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Alex Salter, Comparative Economics Research Fellow at the Free Market Institute and associate professor of...

12 Jan For Every Action…

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… there is an equal and opposite reaction. So says Newton’s Third Law of Motion. What is true in the physical world is very often true also in the social world. Extremism on the political left causes extremism on the political right; extremism on the political right...

11 Jan Many Pathways to Policy Failure-AIER

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“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles,” wrote Ludwig von Mises. “It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of...

04 Jan On Living In Harmony With Nature

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– January 4, 2021 Reading Time: 5 minutes As pointed out by many, including the late Robert Nelson, many people over these past few decades have embraced environmentalism as their religion. One of the familiar tropes of the resulting dogma is that our pre-industrial ancestors...

04 Jan Pandemic Response Is Our Vietnam

Posted at 11:24h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

– January 4, 2021 Reading Time: 6 minutes Most scholars agree that America’s involvement in Vietnam was an unmitigated public policy disaster. In 2020, a new standard for monumental government failure has been set: our public policy response to the coronavirus, which has resulted in...

30 Dec Modest Proposals for the New Year (That Just Might Make the World a Better Place)

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A New Year’s resolution, the old saying goes, is something that goes in one year and out the other. I’m as guilty as anybody when it comes to overly-ambitious resolutions. I’ve broken enough of them that maybe I should just say “Happy New Year!” and leave...

30 Dec Wanted: Missionaries, Not Monks | Lawrence W. Reed

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If you’ve watched FEE programs, publications, and announcements even occasionally in the last couple of years, you’ve no doubt noticed some important changes. We’ve retooled and refocused. At the same time, we’ve reaffirmed the principles of our founding some 67 years ago. We’re using technology...

26 Dec Covid’s Lesson: Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others-AIER

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After they successfully take over Manor Farm, the animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm spell out Seven Commandments of Animalism: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.No animal shall wear clothes.No...

26 Dec Drink Your Coffee, Be Considerate, and Fight Covid-19

Posted at 23:44h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

– December 25, 2020 Reading Time: 6 minutes Lockdowns are a blunt policy instrument typical of government officials who can only pretend to know how individuals make choices and the tradeoffs they face. However, we can still be considerate of the choices people make and...