Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
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The PFAS Packaging Predicament: McDonald’s Isn’t Loving It
“Experimentation is necessary for firms to advance their offerings, which can lead to an improved society. Consumers should be wary of using the power of the courts rather than the power of their purse to influence business practices.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Senioritis: It’s Not Just for Slackers Anymore
“Senioritis is a rational response to the end-of-period problems students face when future consequences that normally condition, if not virtually dictate, their incentives, are eroded.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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“Let Us Not Mistake Words for Things”
“During New York state’s 1788 convention to ratify the newly drafted US Constitution, Alexander Hamilton warned ‘let us not mistake words for things.’ This wise warning has wide applicability still today.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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William F. Buckley’s Encounter With Evil
“The moral of this tragic story is that people are often too trusting of criminals professing their innocence, and ignore the reality of human nature: Evil exists.” ~ Mark Pulliam
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A Better Understanding of Justice
“Adam Smith guides us on how to talk justice beyond the commutative: formulate it as either distributive or estimative, not an admixture of the two.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Adele Spitzeder, the Queen of Confidence Tricksters
“Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895) was active in Bavaria from 1869 to 1872. She founded and operated the Dachauer Bank, which may have been the first Ponzi scheme in history.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer
“Our task is to do all in our power and ability to revive an understanding of and inspire a desire to preserve, restore, and extend the ideal and practice of the truly free society.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late April 2022 Update
“The main threat to people continues to be totalitarian government orders based on COVID and anything else they can get away with calling a ‘public health emergency.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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Virtue Signalling, Ancient and Modern
“Agricola and Marcus Lepidus lived under bad emperors and yet they were still able to do good. They did not need to appear moderate because they were moderate.” ~ Scott B. Nelson
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Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks
“What we are suffering from is not a crisis of ‘capitalism,’ or free markets, or ‘neoliberalism.’ We are facing the consequences of the interventionist and regulatory state.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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The PFAS Packaging Predicament: McDonald’s Isn’t Loving It
“Experimentation is necessary for firms to advance their offerings, which can lead to an improved society. Consumers should be wary of using the power of the courts rather than the power of their purse to influence business practices.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Senioritis: It’s Not Just for Slackers Anymore
“Senioritis is a rational response to the end-of-period problems students face when future consequences that normally condition, if not virtually dictate, their incentives, are eroded.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
“Let Us Not Mistake Words for Things”
“During New York state’s 1788 convention to ratify the newly drafted US Constitution, Alexander Hamilton warned ‘let us not mistake words for things.’ This wise warning has wide applicability still today.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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•
William F. Buckley’s Encounter With Evil
“The moral of this tragic story is that people are often too trusting of criminals professing their innocence, and ignore the reality of human nature: Evil exists.” ~ Mark Pulliam
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A Better Understanding of Justice
“Adam Smith guides us on how to talk justice beyond the commutative: formulate it as either distributive or estimative, not an admixture of the two.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Adele Spitzeder, the Queen of Confidence Tricksters
“Adele Spitzeder (1832-1895) was active in Bavaria from 1869 to 1872. She founded and operated the Dachauer Bank, which may have been the first Ponzi scheme in history.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer
“Our task is to do all in our power and ability to revive an understanding of and inspire a desire to preserve, restore, and extend the ideal and practice of the truly free society.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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•
How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late April 2022 Update
“The main threat to people continues to be totalitarian government orders based on COVID and anything else they can get away with calling a ‘public health emergency.'” ~ Jon Sanders
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•
Virtue Signalling, Ancient and Modern
“Agricola and Marcus Lepidus lived under bad emperors and yet they were still able to do good. They did not need to appear moderate because they were moderate.” ~ Scott B. Nelson
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•
Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks
“What we are suffering from is not a crisis of ‘capitalism,’ or free markets, or ‘neoliberalism.’ We are facing the consequences of the interventionist and regulatory state.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling