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15 Sep So You Want to Overthrow the State: Ten Questions for Aspiring Revolutionaries

Posted at 20:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A professor at Washington and Lee University is offering a writing seminar called “How to Overthrow the State,” which “place(s) each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.” Students are charged with...

15 Sep The Saving Problem in America: Alternatives and Reforms

Posted at 20:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Since before covid-19 and the lockdown, I have written articles that touch on the purpose and importance of personal savings, and more importantly, why the lack of personal savings was going to make an economic crisis in the year 2020 potentially tragic for most Americans. As...

14 Sep That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen

Posted at 19:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause — it is seen....

14 Sep Should American K-12 Schools Teach The 1619 Project?

Posted at 09:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

he New York Times’s 1619 Project is coming under renewed scrutiny as the latest flashpoint in the heated cultural battles over education policy. For the past year the Times, through a partnership with the Pulitzer Center, has aggressively pushed state and local school boards to...

09 Sep Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 23:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 123 of the late Hans Rosling’s 2018 book, Factfulness: The world seems scarier than it is because what you hear about it has been selected – by your own attention filter or by the media – precisely because it is...

09 Sep The Clearest and Best Video Explanation of the Virus, the Lockdowns, and the Impact

Posted at 17:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Those of us who have been reading and writing on lockdowns and the Covid-19 virus have been frustrated in competition with media frenzy and disinformation. Many times since February or so, I imagined that the latest study would put an end to the fake-science silliness...

09 Sep Edmund Burke’s Little-Known Speech That Eroded the British Monarchy’s Command of Money and Power

Posted at 17:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The advance of liberty in the British Isles is a fascinating, 800-year journey. It remains central to the story of human progress in the world, and a giant of that long struggle was the parliamentarian and political philosopher Edmund Burke. The rise of British liberty began...

08 Sep Social Isolation Is Damaging an Entire Generation of Kids

Posted at 16:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I read an advice article at Slate recently where a mom of a nearly five-year-old daughter wrote in to express concern that her child hasn’t seen any friends in five months, since COVID-19 lockdowns began. She said: Because of COVID, my husband and I have decided...

07 Sep Could the CDC’s order harm renters, too?

Posted at 15:51h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Center for Disease Control issued an order on September 1 that tenants earning less than $99,000 a year who fail to pay their rent due to COVID-19-related financial hardships cannot be evicted for non-payment of rent until at least January 1. This raises a...

05 Sep Jeff Deist on CDC Takeover of Rent, Schools

Posted at 08:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Jeff Deist calls in to comment on the CDC sneaking in under COVID regulations to become America’s new landlord. What are the implications of this takeover? Deist says that they are certainly radical. Deist also offers his insights on the surveillance-like supervision in children’s education,...