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19 Dec Quotation of the day on illogical alarmism over COVID and the biggest power grab ever….

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Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share via Email …. is from Alyssa’s Ahlghen’s article “Panic, power and the pandemic“: We have lost our minds. We have said goodbye to any semblance of rationality or assessment of data and said hello to illogical alarmism. A virus...

18 Dec College Costs

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Politicians promise to help everyone go to college. But they just make college more EXPENSIVE.----Don't miss the weekly video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg ----Did you know that the University of Missouri is proud to have a “leisure resort” on campus? Naomi Riley,...

18 Dec How Pope Francis Gets “the Common Good” Wrong

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In a New York Times op-ed full of musings on how to “build a better, different, human future,” Pope Francis praised world governments for putting “the well-being of their people first” while ridiculing critics of the covid-19 lockdowns. Juxtaposed with Francis’s condemnation of skeptics in the...

17 Dec How the State Spreads Mass Hysteria

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The history of mass hysteria, or mass sociogenic illness is fascinating. Cases of mass hysteria have been documented since the Middle Ages. Let me just mention a few of the more recent cases. When a radio play by Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, was broadcasted in...

17 Dec Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from pages 56-57 of the 2009 edition of the incomparable H.L. Mencken’s 1926 book, Notes on Democracy: The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts…. Politics becomes the trade...

16 Dec In Defense of the Morality of Lockdown Opposition

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the first commenter on my recent letter to Tyler: Mr. Wise: Commenting critically on my recent open letter to Tyler Cowen you describe my opposition as springing from an “anarchist/libertarian fantasy.” This description is inaccurate. One doesn’t have to be an...

16 Dec Frederick Douglass vs. the 1619 Project

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A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery.Full text and links here: https://ift.tt/2WiKYZU------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTVLike us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/PrnSKBFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading...

15 Dec Donald Boudreaux on The Ben Shapiro Show – Walter E. Williams

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Donald Boudreaux joins Ben Shapiro to reflect on the legacy of the late Walter E. Williams. Listen on SoundCloud. Read the Full Article here: >Mercatus Center...

15 Dec A New Magazine for Turbulent Times

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Editor David Masci introduces Discourse, a new online journal committed to diverse viewpoints, innovative thinking, and liberal values. Read more at Discourse. Read the Full Article here: >Mercatus Center...

15 Dec The Rescue From Madness

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In his memoirs, written in the 1940s but not published until after his death, the great economist Ludwig von Mises wrote, “I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.” Most people contemplating the political and economic climate of 2020...

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