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06 May ‎Kibbe on Liberty: Ep 120 | Freedom Lets Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things | Guest: Peter Boettke on Apple Podcasts

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Matt Kibbe sits down with economist Peter Boettke to discuss his new book, “The Struggle for a Better World,” about the hope that comes along with the vision of a free society. Too often, economists are seen as raining on the parades of the do-gooders...

28 Apr The Big Empty | City Journal

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On a frigid night last winter, I had dinner with a friend in the East Village. The Thai restaurant was utterly deserted, of course, save for us two. For the privilege of choking on an array of soul-searing hot curries, we had our temperatures...

23 Apr Capitalism vs. Socialism

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Lazear points to several specific examples. First, China: in the 1980s, the Chinese Communist government began to adopt market-based reforms. Lazear finds that the market reforms, as skeptics of capitalism would predict, did increase income inequality. But, more importantly, the market reforms lifted millions of...

22 Apr Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 14 of the late, great Julian Simon’s Introduction to his brilliant 1995 edited volume, The State of Humanity: When considering the state of the environment, we should think first of the terrible pollutions that were banished in the past century or wo – the...

14 Apr Opinion | Down With Big Business, Again

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The woke left turn of much of corporate America has us thinking about a long-ago Journal headline: Down With Big Business. That header atop a 1979 editorial came in a decade, like this one, when prominent companies were accommodating an aggressive expansion of government to...

14 Apr The Dangers of Masks-AIER

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This is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to address key health messages that could have a dramatic effect in reducing risk of...

14 Apr A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’

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On his first day as president, Joe Biden, flanked by a portrait of Ben Franklin, called on the federal government to “advance environmental justice” and “be guided by the best science.” In many ways, Biden’s words came as no surprise. Throughout the 2020 campaign and after, Biden...

13 Apr American Institute for Economic Research

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American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) seeks to positively influence the world by helping advance peace, prosperity, and human progress. AIER helps educate Americans on the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money. Read the Full Article here: >AIER...

13 Apr 3 Great Untruths Universities Push That Ruin Students

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One of the more interesting books I read in 2018 was Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. It’s a book-length treatment of the ideas they discussed in...

13 Apr Americans Have Too Much Toilet Paper. Finally, Sales Slow.

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Bath-tissue sales in January fell more than 4% from the same period a year earlier, before the spread of Covid-19 spurred Americans to load up on staples from toilet paper to sanitary wipes, according to figures from NielsenIQ. The decline, which comes even though legions...