History
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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
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Even Swedish Socialism was Violent
Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.
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Mises’s Human Action After 70 Years
If enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.
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Happy Birthday Deirdre McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a one-woman university, a polymath’s polymath in an age of ever-increasing academic specialization. She has done ground-breaking work across several fields, and her academic appointments show it.
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Economics Has Neglected Inequality? Absurdly Untrue
In fact, inequality studies have been a mainstay of the discipline since at least 1948.
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Friends of Freedom, Do Not Despair
We must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.
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Private Expeditions in the 19th Century Were Far More Successful
Most of the tragedies – such as the Franklin expedition – were publicly funded.
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How Twitter is Corrupting the History Profession
Social media once held great promise as a means of facilitating scholarly exchange. Unfortunately, academics themselves are becoming some of its worst actors.
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The Courage to Be Utopian
Liberalism says YES, and the cosmopolitan liberal order turns strangers into friends and enemies into partners.
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George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.
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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
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•
Even Swedish Socialism was Violent
Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.
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•
Mises’s Human Action After 70 Years
If enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.
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•
Happy Birthday Deirdre McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a one-woman university, a polymath’s polymath in an age of ever-increasing academic specialization. She has done ground-breaking work across several fields, and her academic appointments show it.
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•
Economics Has Neglected Inequality? Absurdly Untrue
In fact, inequality studies have been a mainstay of the discipline since at least 1948.
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•
Friends of Freedom, Do Not Despair
We must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.
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•
Private Expeditions in the 19th Century Were Far More Successful
Most of the tragedies – such as the Franklin expedition – were publicly funded.
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•
How Twitter is Corrupting the History Profession
Social media once held great promise as a means of facilitating scholarly exchange. Unfortunately, academics themselves are becoming some of its worst actors.
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•
The Courage to Be Utopian
Liberalism says YES, and the cosmopolitan liberal order turns strangers into friends and enemies into partners.
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•
George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.