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12 Jun Who Broke Congress? (with Rep. Justin Amash)

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U.S. Representative Justin Amash from the 3rd Congressional District of Michigan has been in Congress since 2011 and in that time period he has seen many of his colleague chose party over principles. In 2019, he announced that he was leaving the Republican Party. He...

12 Jun The Day First-World Problems Became Real

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Ten years ago or so, a popular meme spread on the Internet called first-world problems. The idea here is to poke fun at how much we’ve been spoiled by prosperity and convenience, and how odd it is that we still find things about which to...

12 Jun Can We Talk About Something Else Now?

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Until the sudden protests erupted across the Western world following the death of George Floyd, it felt like corona would never end. The novel virus was an everlasting feature of every conversation, overhanging every decision of how to spend weekends, summer travels or gym time,...

10 Jun Libertarians Who Dismiss Social Justice Are Mistaken

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With the George Floyd killing and associated protests raising a number of issues involving race, the police, and state power that have long interested libertarians, the relationship between libertarian thought and calls for “social justice,” coming almost exclusively from the left, has found its way...

08 Jun The Stories We Tell in a Crisis

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Episode 24: The Stories We Tell in a CrisisOn this episode of the podcast, host John Papola goes solo for his first ever YouTube livestream to have a conversation with his viewers. He spans many topics including the origins of Emergent Order, his time at...

06 Jun The Problems We Must Solve Are Too Important to Reduce to Left vs. Right Politics

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Looting is wrong. Blaming the wrong people for looting is wrong. Using the wrongness of looting to drown out discussions about what preceded the looting is wrong. All of the aforementioned things are wrong, but the key to finding a solution lies in identifying a...

06 Jun An Open Letter to the Charleston Protestors

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An undated, but obviously recent, copy of your ten “Rise Up Demands” has recently come to hand and I would like to share my thoughts about them with you, and any other interested parties, in the same spirit that Libertarian House Representative Justin Amash (MI)...

31 May The Struggle Over “Basic Economics”

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It’s time we have a talk about “basic economics.” The set of ideas broadly speaking to the principle that markets and individual choice will deliver economic results superior to central planning is at the heart of virtually every modern economic policy debate, from reopening businesses that...

21 May Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from this superb column by the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins: Those who talk of governments “following the science,” “acting on the science,” most of whom could not give a coherent account of the science of anything, are like dogs who yap...

21 May How a Free Society Deals with Pandemics, According to Legendary Epidemiologist and Smallpox Eradicator Donald Henderson

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Economists have been writing for hundreds of years on the role of government in solving economic and social problems. A theme has emerged throughout: policy officials are quite often ill informed or have bad incentives compared with what individuals, markets, institutions, and society can achieve...

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