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Politicians Deliberately Feed The Beast Of Public Fear And Anxiety. It Will Take Our Nation A Long Time To Recover.

July 12, 2020

What’s happening now is a spread of anxiety disorders, paranoid delusions, and irrational fear - serious medical conditions - to the whole population. Here we see a primal fear of disease turning into mass panic. It seems almost deliberate. It is tragic. Once this starts, it could take years to repair the psychological damage.”

Millennials’ Ignorance Of Economics Will Recreate The Starving Times.

July 11, 2020

As any student of human nature knows, people who do not benefit personally from their hard work tend not to work all that hard. The upshot was that more was taken than given. Imagine that.

Arsonist Discovered During the Summer of Love at Capitalists’ Hillside Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)

July 10, 2020

Only those who produce, not those who consume, can be anybody's market. I deal with life-givers, not with cannibals. Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of each other, yet we all grow together. What great wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow.

The Constitution Has Failed America. The Solution Lies In Economics – Free-Market Capitalism – Not Politics.

July 9, 2020

When it comes to the Constitution's ability to restrain government power, the conclusion is obvious: that scrap of parchment is an obvious failure, and it is apparent that the text of the document is insufficient to prevent interpretations of the text which empower the federal government rather than limit it.

Eschew News. Embrace Frugality. Fight For Liberty And Freedom. Three Lessons From The Government Lockdowns.

July 8, 2020

To be grateful for our liberties and civilization and never think they can be taken for granted is perhaps the most valuable lesson. Many intelligent people have lost faith in the news, rediscovered frugality, and found a new way to commit themselves to the defense of liberty and human rights.

The Campus Culture Of Radical-Left Professors Is Spilling Into The Streets. We Must Reform Academia.

July 7, 2020

Political radicalism was rampant among the graduate students who became junior professors in 1965-75, instantly shifting the faculty sharply leftward. Then political pressure for female and minority faculty appointments led more young radicals to join the faculty.

Countries, Companies, Careers, Relationships and Skills Can Be Competed Out Of Existence At Any Time. Always Keep Running.

July 5, 2020

Things evolve but never actually become better adapted, because threats are always changing. Black Rhinos survived for 8 million years before being killed off by poachers. Lehman Brothers adapted and prospered for 150 years and 33 recessions before mortgage-backed securities. Poof, gone.

Gigantic Case-Counting Deception At CDC Is Vastly Inflating COVID-19 Case Numbers.

July 4, 2020

And the first paragraph would go this way: “Just when governors are trying to reopen their economies, a gigantic case-counting deception at the CDC is taking the wind out of their sails.

Why Can’t Free Markets Do A Better Job Of Managing Their Own PR?

July 3, 2020

Precisely because free and innovative markets ceaselessly expand our range of opportunities, comparing the economic statistics of today with those of yesterday too often masks the improvements brought to us by markets.

The 1776 Project: Jefferson And Smith. Who Was The Greater Libertarian?

July 2, 2020

Smith wrote: “Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.

Mel Brooks Found The Independent Virtues for Peaceful Human Progress in Comic Heroes

July 1, 2020

Brook's transcendence is proven with the first of these movies, The Producers (1967), which was re-created into a hit Broadway musical run nearly 40 years later. For Brooks, absurdity is an art form to be molded into a weapon against the endless absurdities of collectivism, particularly its most vile form, bigotry, whose politically correct version thrives today.

The Media Really Are Lying To You. This 50-Year Old Book Explained How And Why In Great Detail.

June 30, 2020

America’s mass media aren’t reporting on mass panics and mass protests, they are creating them. They only secondarily “report” on them. Maybe COVID is the pandemic of the century. Or maybe not. The only thing we know for certain is that we can’t trust anything we hear about it on ABC Nightly “News.”

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The Center for Individualism exists to revive individualism in America. We seek to be a catalyst for cultural change and a hub for all who aspire to live a self-reliant life. We produce content, curate resources, provide services, and facilitate relationships that empower people to achieve their personal and economic ambitions. Our purpose is to support individuals in building a better life for themselves – and in so doing, to build a better society for all.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?