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24 Jun Does The Handmaid’s Tale Get Feminism Wrong?

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On this short, special guest-narrated edition of Out of Frame, co-writer Jen Maffesanti gets into “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its depiction of an oppressive, patriarchal society. With analogies to the modern world, some present-day feminists use this book and series for dramatic political protests. But...

24 Jun The Woke Business Complex

Posted at 15:26h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As he left office in early 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the biggest domestic threats to their liberty, the military-industrial and scientific-technological complexes. Ostensibly, those two aspects of what was later sometimes termed The Deep State or The Swamp defeated the Union of...

24 Jun The Death of a Visionary Retailer Reminds Us of Private Equity’s Genius

Posted at 15:25h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Leigh Perkins died last month. Most reading this likely weren’t aware of his passing, or who he was for that matter. But his story has broad relevance in consideration of the times in which we live. About Perkins, his New York Times obituary noted that he “built...

24 Jun The Real Trickle-Down Effect: Making “Luxuries” Affordable to Regular People

Posted at 15:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Most readers are familiar with the notion of the "trickle-down effect." This caricature is usually employed by left-leaning economists to denounce tax cuts for the entrepreneurial class. Writing for the Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham tells readers that slashing tax rates for the wealthy fails to...

24 Jun Operation Barbarossa and How Germany Helped Create the Soviet Union

Posted at 05:19h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Doug Bandow On June 22 80 years ago, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union in a war that stretched along an 1800‐mile front. Less than four years later, the Red Army captured a ruined Berlin. Much of Central and Eastern Europe also was occupied by the Soviets,...

24 Jun John Stuart Mill on America

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I call this Mill’s Conjecture: High wages and universal reading are the two elements of democracy; where they co-exist, all government, except the government of public opinion, is impossible. That is from Mill’s State of Society in America. But is it true about China? The post John Stuart...

23 Jun Can Economics Save Medicine?

Posted at 23:41h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

[This article is excerpted from a talk given June 17, 2021, at the Mises Institute’s Medical Freedom Summit in Salem, New Hampshire.] Ladies and gentlemen, why are we here today? First, in a certain sense medicine in America is broken. Doctors and patients are unhappy, the quality...

23 Jun Making the Case for Capitalism

Posted at 20:18h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Capital Matters is here to explain, defend, and celebrate the greatest force for prosperity in the world. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

23 Jun Millennials, the Wealthiest Generation? Believe It

Posted at 20:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The world has changed since Boomers were young adults, and so has the value of housing, education and a steady job.Millennials spent their early adulthood dogged by two large recessions, rising housing prices and exploding student debt. It's no wonder they're less likely, even...

23 Jun When I Wanted to Work in a Food Truck Instead of the Senate

Posted at 20:11h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A pretty good word of professional advice that I live by is to always seek to create value for others. Whether you are an entrepreneur or an employee in a massive firm, the way you distinguish yourself and make yourself valuable is by looking for...