History
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Mound Bayou: Guns, Civil Rights, Free Speech and The Emmett Till Murder
“During the trial of Till’s murderers, Dr. T.R.M. Howard’s Mound Bayou home became a ‘black command center’ for witnesses and journalists.” ~David T. Beito
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Liberalism: What Does It Even MEAN? Political Scientist Explains
“Progressives and conservatives are both convinced that their morality and vision for society is correct, and have no qualms about using the power of the state to impose it upon the rest of us.” ~Michael Munger
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Mound Bayou Takes the Lead in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
“Visitors often got their first exposure to a Southern town where members of their race voted, held office, enforced the laws, spoke freely, and walked through the front door. Their day-to-day experiences in Mound Bayou were an inspiration for changing their own communities.” ~David T. Beito
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Worst US Bond Selloff Since 1792
“The failure of numerous banks at once can damage the economy, as bank failure waves did during the Great Depression, the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s, and the 2007-10 meltdown.” ~Robert E. Wright
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How Little Mound Bayou Became a Powerful Engine for African American Civil Rights and Economic Advancement
“Many African Americans carefully kept track of events in the town, seeing it as a test case for Booker T. Washington’s theory that a prerequisite for political rights was the slow accumulation of economic power.” ~David Beito
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A “Flame of Fire” for Every Age: James Otis and the Writs of Assistance
“Otis asserted that every man, merely natural, was an independent sovereign, subject to no law, but the law written on his heart, and revealed to him by his Maker in the constitution of his nature and the inspiration of his understanding and his conscience.”
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Are We Choosing “Living Truth” or “Dead Dogma”?
“While the ranks of illiberal censors grow daily, John Stuart Mill’s impeccable logic reaches across time to refute arguments censors use to justify their authoritarian actions.” ~Barry Brownstein
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Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence
“Price controls do not stop inflation; they only make things worse. If prices are going up, it’s either because monetary policy is too loose or because the economy suffered a decline in productivity.”
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You’re No Einstein, Einstein
“While he does seem to have intuited that socialism increased the dangers of authoritarian government, he doesn’t seem to have fully grasped that what he sought were two goals in fundamental tension.” ~James A. Hanley
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Reaching Across the Aisle for the Bill of Rights: Learning from a Political Odd Couple
“If Americans want to expand and guarantee protections for free speech, they can gain inspiration from the contributions of Republican Alfred Landon and Socialist Norman Thomas.” ~David Beito
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Mound Bayou: Guns, Civil Rights, Free Speech and The Emmett Till Murder
“During the trial of Till’s murderers, Dr. T.R.M. Howard’s Mound Bayou home became a ‘black command center’ for witnesses and journalists.” ~David T. Beito
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Liberalism: What Does It Even MEAN? Political Scientist Explains
“Progressives and conservatives are both convinced that their morality and vision for society is correct, and have no qualms about using the power of the state to impose it upon the rest of us.” ~Michael Munger
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Mound Bayou Takes the Lead in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
“Visitors often got their first exposure to a Southern town where members of their race voted, held office, enforced the laws, spoke freely, and walked through the front door. Their day-to-day experiences in Mound Bayou were an inspiration for changing their own communities.” ~David T. Beito
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Worst US Bond Selloff Since 1792
“The failure of numerous banks at once can damage the economy, as bank failure waves did during the Great Depression, the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s, and the 2007-10 meltdown.” ~Robert E. Wright
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How Little Mound Bayou Became a Powerful Engine for African American Civil Rights and Economic Advancement
“Many African Americans carefully kept track of events in the town, seeing it as a test case for Booker T. Washington’s theory that a prerequisite for political rights was the slow accumulation of economic power.” ~David Beito
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A “Flame of Fire” for Every Age: James Otis and the Writs of Assistance
“Otis asserted that every man, merely natural, was an independent sovereign, subject to no law, but the law written on his heart, and revealed to him by his Maker in the constitution of his nature and the inspiration of his understanding and his conscience.”
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Are We Choosing “Living Truth” or “Dead Dogma”?
“While the ranks of illiberal censors grow daily, John Stuart Mill’s impeccable logic reaches across time to refute arguments censors use to justify their authoritarian actions.” ~Barry Brownstein
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Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence
“Price controls do not stop inflation; they only make things worse. If prices are going up, it’s either because monetary policy is too loose or because the economy suffered a decline in productivity.”
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You’re No Einstein, Einstein
“While he does seem to have intuited that socialism increased the dangers of authoritarian government, he doesn’t seem to have fully grasped that what he sought were two goals in fundamental tension.” ~James A. Hanley
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Reaching Across the Aisle for the Bill of Rights: Learning from a Political Odd Couple
“If Americans want to expand and guarantee protections for free speech, they can gain inspiration from the contributions of Republican Alfred Landon and Socialist Norman Thomas.” ~David Beito