Paul Schwennesen
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Denmark Passes the World’s First ‘Fart Tax’—But This is No Laughing Matter
Cow farts are a distraction, and the joke’s on us. The Danish tax is a significant step toward the state ownership of the means of production.
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1500 Hours: Haircuts, Pilots, and Regulatory Capture
Years of training and certification aren’t required to protect consumers. They exist to protect existing players and bolster training programs.
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Destroying Creative Destruction: Volkswagen, Germany, and the Will to Power
“Bureaucratic sclerosis displays its own cycles of creative destruction.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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Hurricanes and Other Evil Winds
“Extreme headlines fit a generally understood narrative and are far more likely to be absorbed by the public. This selective attention pushes a bias toward extremism in climate reporting that significantly inflames the political climate.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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Emergent Order in Inner Space
“In other words, the hand is invisible not because it is deftly hiding in the shadows, but because it isn’t there at all.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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The Manure Lobby: Farmer Fury in Europe
“When a motivated and adequately organized group combines to concentrate its lobbying power on government, it generates foreseeable incentives for the ruling legislatures.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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Milei’s Bid for Freedom
“Rather than simply bemoan the poor policies of Peronist statism, Milei laid out precisely why the alternative to statism — liberated markets — can offer so much more.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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Is DEI Collapsing?
“The pervasive cloud of weird, semi-threatening tension which swirls around a modern faculty corridor does a disservice to a long and venerable academic tradition.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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The Gramscian March Trips Up
“The strategy aimed at shaping collective consciousness seems to have backfired, as the population, witnessing the institutional embrace of socialist ideologies, lost faith in the very institutions ostensibly meant to guide them.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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Land of the Free – An Update
“We live in an era dominated by the doctrine of prior restraint, the notion that all actions (individual or corporate) should be forestalled until approved by an appropriate authority. It is an ugly inversion of a bedrock principle of a free society.’ ~Paul Schwennesen
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Denmark Passes the World’s First ‘Fart Tax’—But This is No Laughing Matter
Cow farts are a distraction, and the joke’s on us. The Danish tax is a significant step toward the state ownership of the means of production.
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•
1500 Hours: Haircuts, Pilots, and Regulatory Capture
Years of training and certification aren’t required to protect consumers. They exist to protect existing players and bolster training programs.
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•
Destroying Creative Destruction: Volkswagen, Germany, and the Will to Power
“Bureaucratic sclerosis displays its own cycles of creative destruction.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
Hurricanes and Other Evil Winds
“Extreme headlines fit a generally understood narrative and are far more likely to be absorbed by the public. This selective attention pushes a bias toward extremism in climate reporting that significantly inflames the political climate.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
Emergent Order in Inner Space
“In other words, the hand is invisible not because it is deftly hiding in the shadows, but because it isn’t there at all.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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The Manure Lobby: Farmer Fury in Europe
“When a motivated and adequately organized group combines to concentrate its lobbying power on government, it generates foreseeable incentives for the ruling legislatures.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
Milei’s Bid for Freedom
“Rather than simply bemoan the poor policies of Peronist statism, Milei laid out precisely why the alternative to statism — liberated markets — can offer so much more.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
Is DEI Collapsing?
“The pervasive cloud of weird, semi-threatening tension which swirls around a modern faculty corridor does a disservice to a long and venerable academic tradition.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
The Gramscian March Trips Up
“The strategy aimed at shaping collective consciousness seems to have backfired, as the population, witnessing the institutional embrace of socialist ideologies, lost faith in the very institutions ostensibly meant to guide them.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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•
Land of the Free – An Update
“We live in an era dominated by the doctrine of prior restraint, the notion that all actions (individual or corporate) should be forestalled until approved by an appropriate authority. It is an ugly inversion of a bedrock principle of a free society.’ ~Paul Schwennesen