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05 Oct The Pope Just Called Private Property a ‘Secondary Right.’ He Couldn’t Be More Wrong

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Since becoming the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis has not shied away from the political domain. On Sunday, the religious leader used the COVID-19 pandemic to renew his criticisms of free-market capitalism. “The fragility of world systems in the face of the pandemic...

03 Oct Some Links

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetJeffrey Tucker mourns the passing of the great Wall Street Journal editor and columnist George Melloan. A slice: It didn’t surprise me at all that Melloan was an anti-lockdowner. He was an old-school liberal who believed “markets are like Mother Nature, not to be messed...

02 Oct Everything that’s wrong with Dick Costolo’s tweet in 1,531 characters

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Woke capitalism went into overdrive on Wednesday, when a former Twitter CEO seemingly endorsed the full-scale liquidation of entrepreneurs who refuse to bring politics into the workplace. Dick Costolo served as COO of Twitter before becoming its CEO from 2010 to 2015. On September 30, he...

02 Oct Is America in Decline?

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Editorial note: this essay originally appeared in the Des Moines Register, Sept 1990, and a revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3. It serves as a helpful reminder of where this country was 30 years ago. The headlines make it hard not...

02 Oct Entrepreneurship Is Skyrocketing During the Pandemic

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The pandemic and related government lockdowns have caused widespread economic and social disruption over the past several months. There is much to despair about, as tens of thousands of small businesses have permanently closed and rates of depression and suicide rise. Yet, there are signs...

02 Oct Hollywood’s a Mess, But There’s Another Option

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We’ve spent a lot of time on this series talking about the effects of coronavirus lockdowns on the economy in general as well as the entertainment industry, specifically. The economic burden has been devastating to many, and it’s impacting other areas of our lives in...

02 Oct Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

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Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment...

02 Oct The History Of Socialism And Capitalism

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Thursday, October 1, 2020Hoover InstitutionThe Hoover Institution presents an online virtual speaker series based on the scholarly research and commentary written by Hoover fellows participating in the Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism. This project objectively investigates the historical record to assess the...

02 Oct Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 79 of Deirdre McCloskey’s important 2019 book, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: The communist, fascist, and national socialist régimes dating from 1917, 1922, and 1933, all of them versions...

01 Oct Why Would YouTube Suppress Our New Video on Disney, Chinese Genocide, and Mulan?

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A bipartisan group of US Senators and House Members slammed Disney earlier this month after it was revealed the company thanked the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and various state propaganda agencies in the credits of its live-action remake of Mulan. Several of these agencies, it was...