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03 Sep The David Story | Behind the Scenes

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The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King | Secure your place today in our newest free online course, “The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King.” Preregistration begins on September 7 and runs through September 27. The course begins on October 5. You can reserve you spot now...

03 Sep The Rise of Economic Fascism in America

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When people hear the word “fascism” they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and ‘30s as “corporatism,”...

02 Sep How Is An Altcoin Created?

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In 2021, Bitcoin hit the impressive mark of $1 trillion in market cap, and all cryptocurrencies nowadays sum over $2.3 trillion. This is an amazing accomplishment over a decade. But why do we need cryptocurrencies? What are altcoins?In this video, part of the Blockchain Economics...

02 Sep Recounting Friedman on School Choice: Innuendo or History?

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Since Milton Friedman’s passing in 2006, his legacy has drawn considerable fire for all the usual reasons of political expediency and ideology. Both have come into play recently with special force over his ideas in the area of school choice. In the highly polarized politics...

02 Sep California’s Recall Is a Revolt Against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Progressive Agenda

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Leading candidates Larry Elder, Kevin Faulconer, and Kevin Kiley cite homelessness, crime, housing costs, and energy shortages as evidence that one-party rule is failing the Golden State.Full text, links, and credits: https://ift.tt/3gPImgw------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

02 Sep The Totalitarian Roots of Vaccine Mandates

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Over the course of the pandemic, principles of what a free society means are being redefined by collectivists. Consider this essay, Don’t COVID Vaccine Mandates Actually Promote Freedom? Medical ethicists Kyle Ferguson and Arthur Caplan argue, “Those who oppose cracking down on the unvaccinated are getting...

02 Sep On Milton Friedman’s Economics and Motives

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to a high-school senior in Virginia: Mr. H__: Thanks for your e-mail, and for reading Cafe Hayek. As you predict, I join you in rejecting your economics teacher’s belief that “Milton Friedman’s teachings privileged the powerful … and oppressed workers and the disenfranchised.”...

31 Aug Liberalism’s Enemies

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What do Glenn Greenwald, Steven Pinker, and Jonah Goldberg have in common? Left vs. right is such a crude distinction, after all. It always has been. It pulls people into partisan team sports. It locks them in affiliation binaries. It pits them against one another in...

31 Aug After, After War

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|Peter Boettke| As US military planes left the airport in Afghanistan, the longest war in US history came to an end. Now begins the hard recognition of the true costs of the last 20 years. Sadness of this episode in US history was accented last Sunday...

30 Aug Civilization Will Be Destroyed Under the Pretense of Protecting Public Health

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: The headline of today’s report on a new policy unveiled by the Department of Health and Human Services accurately reads “Climate Change to Be Treated as Public-Health Issue.” The policy change triggering this headline is as predictable...