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23 Dec Personal Liberty Sacrificed at the Altar of Covid Public Safety

Posted at 22:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Repeatedly this year we have heard the admonition, from acolytes of Covid-19 lockdowns, to “follow the science.” Many of the admonishers presume that lockdown skeptics are myopic, “anti-science” miscreants infected with a reckless disregard for human health, safety, and life. Yes, some people are so...

23 Dec Why It’s Important to Make the Moral Case for Capitalism

Posted at 22:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

It is true that free market capitalism is the best system for promoting human flourishing and prosperity. Not surprisingly, then, many advocates for free markets exalt the dynamism of capitalism. However, in making this utilitarian defense of capitalism, defenders might also be ceding the moral...

23 Dec Hope and Freedom in Georgia

Posted at 22:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you live in a lockdown state, you might not remember what normal life feels like. I’m pretty sure I had forgotten. That’s horribly dangerous for the human spirit. Human beings are not supposed to live in lock down. We are supposed to be free. Spending...

23 Dec WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

Posted at 21:58h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Coronavirus lived on surfaces until it didn’t. Masks didn’t work until they did, then they did not. There is asymptomatic transmission, except there isn’t. Lockdowns work to...

23 Dec Some Covid Links

Posted at 07:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetRuss Roberts EconTalks with Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. David Henderson observes that, while hypocrisy by politicians generally knows no party lines, hypocrisy over the Covid-19 lockdowns in the United States is overwhelmingly Democratic. Art Carden decries one of the many...

22 Dec Heroes in a Year of Horrors

Posted at 23:59h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Art Carden rightly points out that 2020 doesn’t come close to being humanity’s worst year ever. This reality ought never be forgotten. Still, 2020 has nevertheless proven, by modern standards, to be a year especially vile. And by far the vilest aspects of this soon-to-be-done...

22 Dec Politicians are Crushing Christmas Miracles

Posted at 23:58h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

It’s been said here before and it should be said again: every new American business is a bit of a miracle. That’s the case because the conceit of a new commercial endeavor is that the people in the world’s most capitalist country haven’t fully met...

22 Dec The Year Populism Was Right and the Experts Weren’t

Posted at 23:58h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Two thousand and twenty has been an odd year. A year on which more books, unqualified articles, and uninformed opinions will be voiced than possibly any other year in the history of our species. Then again, we all have megaphones of various sizes these days...

22 Dec No, Console Scalpers Aren’t Ruining Christmas

Posted at 23:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Support Out of Frame on Patreon: https://ift.tt/2UnY3k1 Check out our podcast, Out of Frame: Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiS5rEmhnLwo1IG9bgr19Og As we enter peak holiday season, most people have their shopping done by now, but as always, many are scrambling last-minute for their purchases. And if you...

22 Dec Be More Skeptical of Lockdowns