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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 5 of Cass Sunstein’s superb 2005 book, Laws of Fear: Human beings, cultures, nations often single out one or a few social risks as “salient,” and ignore the others. DBx: Yes. What Sunstein here describes is called by behavioral economists the...

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds. University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 392 pages. English literature scholar Ed Ericson told a story about teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago to American undergrads, who knew plenty about...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… there is an equal and opposite reaction. So says Newton’s Third Law of Motion. What is true in the physical world is very often true also in the social world. Extremism on the political left causes extremism on the political right; extremism on the...

It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year. For...