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01 Nov The Democratic Party Has Turned Against Civilization

Posted at 19:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I did not vote for Trump last time, but I will this time, because the Democratic Party has turned against civilization. Both Democrats and Republicans Have Betrayed The Cause of Liberty A clear sign that both candidates—and both major parties—have betrayed liberty is that both parties unequivocally...

01 Nov More Ivor Cummins on Covid

Posted at 19:00h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetThis short, new video by Ivor Cummins is highly informative. How anyone can watch this video and remain a pro-lockdowner is, to me, a mystery. Such a person must either have a mind impossibly closed, or believe that Cummins’s data are fake. If...

01 Nov Anti-Science?

Posted at 05:50h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to a young woman who accuses me (and other lockdown opponents) of being “anti-science”: Ms. Hasanov: Thanks for your e-mail. I did indeed read Alan Alda’s Washington Post op-ed. Of course he’s correct that, in the formation of policy responses to Covid-19, science...

01 Nov Lockdowns Recreated a Pre-Modern Caste System

Posted at 05:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you test positive or refuse to be tested at all in New Zealand, prepare to be shipped out to a quarantine camp recently established by the government. Shocking, yes, but we have an analogous system in the US. If you test positive (which is...

01 Nov “Slide-Rule Aid”? Why Not?

Posted at 05:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Economic pessimism, sadly, is always in fashion. I suspect that if Deirdre McCloskey and I had titled our book Let Us Run Your Lives Or Everybody Dies: How the Bolshevik and Bureaucratic Deals Will Keep You Safe and Secure in the Age of Pandemics and...

01 Nov How I Survived Travel to a “Democracy” Where I Had No Vote

Posted at 05:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

We landed at the Anchorage airport, deplaned, and hurriedly hustled through the concourse. Our rapid movement was both an expression of our excitement to see our daughters, who recently moved there, as well as an acknowledgement that a battle awaited. No, not a family squabble....

31 Oct Lockdowns Recreated a Pre-Modern Caste System

Posted at 12:42h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

31 Oct “My Back Pages”: The Bob Dylan Song That Can Guide a Generation Lost in Protest | Jon Miltimore

Posted at 08:37h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

In 1963, Bob Dylan was a fresh-faced kid probably unrecognizable to most Americans, but he showed he was already an old soul when he delivered a speech in the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s American Hotel that December. It was about two weeks before Christmas,...

31 Oct Extreme Poverty Rates Plummet Under Capitalism | Robert P. Murphy

Posted at 08:34h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

The Rich and the Poor Under Capitalism You might have heard the phrase, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Yes, it’s true that the rich (tend to) get richer, but the poor get richer too—especially if we look at a time span of decades...

29 Oct Populism Worked for the Pro-Freedom Party in the Past. Can It Work Again?

Posted at 18:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Although he was a scholar with degrees in mathematics and economics, Murray Rothbard was very much a fan of the American layman. Indeed, he was a populist both in temperament and in his political views. In a 1992 column outlining his populist strategy, Rothbard noted...

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