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14 Dec Stuck in Neutral: Trucking And the Pandemic

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On October 25, 2021, about one month before the detection of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa, the Biden Administration released an announcement entitled “A Proclamation on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” More an adjustment of restrictions...

09 Dec Squid Game Says More About Communism Than Capitalism

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The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.Full text, links, and credits:https://ift.tt/3dyT1dA------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTVLike us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/PrnSKBFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and...

30 Nov Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 99 of the late Christopher Hitchens’s excellent little 2001 tract, Letters to a Young Contrarian: Distrust any speaker who talks confidently about “we,” or speaks in the name of “us.” Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your...

30 Nov Fact-BLOCKERS

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I’ve reported that Facebook censored me. Now I’ve learned that Facebook also censors respected science writers John Tierney, Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg.-------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/2LsSefV--------Facebook, and its so-called "fact-checker," Science Feedback, censored former NYT reporter...

30 Nov Smallpox: The Historical Myths behind Mandatory Vaccines

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Vaccine mandates are not a new invention, and states have long pushed a narrative exaggerating the success of mandates in the past. Original Article: "Smallpox: The Historical Myths behind Mandatory Vaccines" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. Read the Full...

26 Nov How Hayek Can Transform Our Ingratitude into Gratitude

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“Some Americans,” Thomas Sowell wrote, “will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.” “Ingratitude,” psychology professor Robert Emmons observes, in his book Thanks: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, “leads inevitably to a confining, restricting and ‘shrinking’...

21 Nov Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies

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The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on his experiences under Stalin, Grossman depicts how humanity withers under tyranny. Grossman’s book is not a dystopian novel, yet few books better teach...

21 Nov What Gibbon Got Wrong in ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’

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In The Devil’s Dictionary, the writer Ambrose Bierce offered this definition of History: “An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” Before you dismiss Bierce’s cynical perspective, remember that historians are mortals. Some are...

11 Nov Open House: The Great Works at the Acton Institute

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Open House: The Great Works at the Acton Institute eric.kohn November 11, 2021 - 10:11am Start Date Tue, 11/30/2021 - 16:00 Introduction Text Join the Acton Institute for an open house on Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 4pm-8pm for an open house to see many curated works from The Remnant Trust,...

07 Nov Ivy League Analysis Destroys Biden’s Entire Argument for Multi-Trillion-Dollar ‘Build Back Better’ Spending Plans

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President Biden continues to fight to pass some version of his multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” spending agenda through Congress. In its various iterations, the plan includes trillions spent on everything from electric vehicle tax credits and green energy subsidies to taxpayer-funded childcare-for-all to housing subsidies...