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14 Sep Neil Peart: Enlightenment in Verse and Romanticism in Rock by Jeffrey Falk | Capitalism Magazine

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Neil Peart was a polymath: a rock drummer, jazz drummer, lyricist, co-novelist, and nonfiction author, among other things. Ultimately, he was an artist and writer who expressed and personified Enlightenment ideas. At a time when those ideas were out of vogue, he kept them alive...

13 Sep Books On Liberty that You Haven’t Read but Should-AIER

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Every libertarian (or classical liberal) has a list of his or her 10 greatest books. These volumes are canonical contributions that, above all others, have profoundly shaped that libertarian’s worldview. I’m no different. And I’m sure that if my list of...

13 Sep The New York Times Reported ‘the Mainstreaming of Marxism in US Colleges’ 30 Years Ago. Today, We See the Results | Jon Miltimore, Dan Sanchez

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In August 1989, Poland’s parliament did the unthinkable. The Soviet satellite state elected an anti-communist as its new prime minister. The world waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. And then it happened: nothing. When no Soviet tanks deployed to Poland to crush the...

13 Sep The moral and spiritual blessings of trade among all nations

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Free trade doesn’t just make us better off. It makes us better people. Donald Trump claims that raising barriers to trade is one of the things it will take to “Make America Great Again,” but he is wrong. Greatness—both of wealth and of moral character—comes from trade....

11 Sep 3 Reasons Millennials Should Ditch Karl Marx for Ayn Rand | Leisa Miller

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Dear avocado-toast-eating brethren, We need to drop Karl Marx like we dropped cable TV. We’re a generation that's sick of wars (and threats of wars), mass shootings, and media sensationalism. As the ambassadors of the sharing economy and investors in cryptocurrency, we hold innovation and entrepreneurship in...

05 Sep The Humanitarian with the Guillotine | Isabel Paterson

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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.This is demonstrably true;...

26 Aug How a Free Society Deals with Pandemics, According to Legendary…

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Economists have been writing for hundreds of years on the role of government in solving economic and social problems. A theme has emerged throughout: policy officials are quite often ill informed or have bad incentives compared with what individuals, markets, institutions, and society can achieve...

26 Aug Save Yourself: Stop Believing in Lockdown

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Storied minds have argued that a failure to critically examine our beliefs makes us culpable for adverse outcomes. Beliefs lead to actions, which impact other people. As Voltaire wrote during the Enlightenment — when society still had time away from the screen to reflect on philosophy,...

16 Aug When Your Intellectual Heroes Let You Down

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The lockdown upheaval has affected every aspect of life, including intellectual life. People we have never heard of have become some of the most passionate and informative voices against government measures. I’m glad to meet them and interested in seeing how they grow through this...

04 Jul Human History Is an Ever-Expanding Circle of Empathy

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There are many different ways to look at the history of U.S. race relations. One extreme, for example, compares America’s past and present state of race relations with a future when all of America’s remaining imperfections will have been ironed out. Let’s call that the...

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