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02 Jul

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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces a life journey that started with the gift of a single library card and culminated at the esteemed Hoover Institution. The story of one of our era’s most controversial authors on race, history,...

02 Jul

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The Last Kingdom on Netflix is now in its fourth season and remains a pretty popular offering. But the life of the people it depicts is, well, “nasty, brutish and short.” Clearly, a lot has changed in the 1,100-plus years between the...

28 Jun

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Income inequality in the US celebrated its 50th birthday last year. Having declined steadily after World War II, 1968 began a 50-year winning streak. Few are cheering, though, because concentrations of wealth are dangerous. People controlling huge amounts of money can use their buying power to...

29 Mar

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Like you, I try to get out once a day to keep clarity of mind, whether out for a walk or, even better, to experience something of commercial life out there, truncated as it might be. Businesses doing business, wealth being created despite...

12 Mar

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Laissez-faire has become a dirty word. Today it serves as shorthand for a soulless, anything-goes approach to life in which government makes no contribution to a thriving economy and the market is the solution to every problem. The term’s origin, however, suggests...

24 Jan

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Protectionist policies are, on the surface, attractive. Through state means, they promise to protect industries and workers as well as boost a country’s industrial production. But like most top-down solutions, there’s a catch; the government has a knowledge deficiency. “No one knows what technological...

23 Jan

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TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: A recent headline of yours reads “Trump Doubles Down on Threats to Impose Tariffs on European Cars” (Jan. 21). May I suggest that you change your policy to always refer to tariffs as being...