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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 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 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...

01 Oct Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

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Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment...

29 Sep Modern Mercantilists Misunderstand Money – Foundation for Economic Education

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A common, and correct, observation among economists is that mercantilists mistake money for wealth. Mercantilists literally believe (even when they deny the belief) that money is wealth – that to accumulate money is to accumulate wealth and that to spend money is to become less wealthy....

17 Sep Opinion | How to Live With Covid, Not for It

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The battle against Covid-19 is entering a new phase, and the choice for society is whether to live with the virus or to live for it. This new phase has been marked by four developments: Many states have weathered post-shutdown outbreaks and case counts are...

14 Sep Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse and Romanticism in Rock by Jeffrey Falk | Capitalism Magazine

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Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drummer, lyricist, co-novelist, and nonfiction author, among other things. Ultimately, he was an artist and writer who expressed and personified Enlightenment ideas. At a time when those ideas were out of vogue, he kept them alive...

13 Sep Books On Liberty that You Haven’t Read but Should-AIER

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Every libertarian (or classical liberal) has a list of his or her 10 greatest books. These volumes are canonical contributions that, above all others, have profoundly shaped that libertarian’s worldview. I’m no different. And I’m sure that if my list of...

13 Sep The New York Times Reported ‘the Mainstreaming of Marxism in US Colleges’ 30 Years Ago. Today, We See the Results | Jon Miltimore, Dan Sanchez

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In August 1989, Poland’s parliament did the unthinkable. The Soviet satellite state elected an anti-communist as its new prime minister. The world waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. And then it happened: nothing. When no Soviet tanks deployed to Poland to crush the...

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