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CULTURE
Grateful for Not Starving: Why The Pilgrims at Plymouth Switched From Socialism to Capitalism
The Pilgrims nearly starved to death. They’d tried to farm collectively — the entire community owning all the land and sharing everything, like socialists.
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POLITICS
Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism
If there is a chance to not only pull society away from the social and economic abyss towards which it is moving, but return it to a path more in the direction of personal liberty, economic freedom, and equal individual rights under partial rule of law and constitutiona…
Academic Mismatch I
Which serves the interests of the black community better: a black student admitted to a top-tier law school, such as Harvard, Stanford or Yale, and winds up in the bottom 10 percent of his class, flunks out, or cannot pass the bar examination, or a black student…
Foreign Policy “Experience”
Now that the Democrats have recovered from the shock of Governor Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican’s candidate for vice president, they have suddenly discovered that her lack of experience in general– and foreign policy experience in…
Anarchy on the Internet
The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation. For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that…
When Barack Obama Equals Sarah Palin
Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on Taxing Oil Companies and Giving the Money to Others
Anti-Obamanomics: Reducing Taxes on the “Rich”
An analysis and critique of a major aspect of the views on taxation attributed to Obama.
MARKETS
Congress Seeks To Boost Teen Joblessness By Increasing The Minimum Wage
A mandatory minimum wage rate, to the extent it’s set above the market-clearing wage rate, causes unemployment.
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WORLD
Iraqis Should Look To American Founding Fathers When Writing Their Constitution
On December 15, 1791, 213 years ago, the American Bill of Rights was ratified. Thus ended a long and difficult process by which the American people first liberated themselves from tyranny and then established the first government in history founded on individual…
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LAW
Unemployment: A Deadlier Disaster for the Third World
As wage rates rise, workers can more and more afford to accept lesser increases along with improved working conditions of a kind that must be at their expense.
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SCI-TECH
U.N. Plan for Internet Control Tiptoes Forward
The phantom of government-controlled Internet has raised its menacing head again, this time on the global level. “Even the definition of what we mean by Internet governance is a subject of debate. But the world has a common interest in ensuring the security and…
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