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A Little Bit Of Knowledge Sharing Goes A Long Way: Let’s Learn From Switzerland How To Administer A Healthcare System.

November 8, 2019

Do we have a national auto insurance plan? A system paid for with taxes so that everyone gets covered? High insurance taxes for rich people and no tax at all for the poor? No.

The Sharing Economy Increases Human Wealth While Decreasing GDP. Let’s Try To Measure The Right Things.

November 7, 2019

The idea that price-based “standards of living” have been stagnating is just misguided. New measures of GDP would help, but the larger problem is that any purely market-focused metric will miss the ability, and in fact the desire, of human beings to cooperate in groups.

The Literary Poetic Justice Warrior Fighting Hollywood’s Progressive Bigotry on Broadway – Atticus Finch

November 6, 2019

Harper Lee's masterpiece was an enlightening study of human nature. Her characterization of Finch illustrated the classical liberal values of self-reliance, compassion, tolerance, justice, and most of all, the essential role of a loving, dedicated father in the life of a child. Yet, there were very few examples of fatherly affection or life lessons in the play - the children were played by young adults.

Splinternet: The Balkanization Of The Internet.

November 5, 2019

Another idea is to develop “club”- or “zone”-based approaches to running the internet—discrete, interconnecting blocs whose nation-members would make commitments to liberal principles like free trade, privacy and freedom of expression.

6 Charts Show The Overwhelming, Never-Ending Growth Of Big Government.

November 4, 2019

By what measure are governments getting smaller, weaker, and less involved in the daily lives of human beings? In this country, at least, this case certainly can't be made by consulting the data on government taxation and spending.

The World’s Least-Free Countries Reveal Just How Much ‘Socialism Sucks’.

November 3, 2019

Socialist tyrants were the greatest mass murderers in history, and the young must be apprised of this melancholy fact. “Stalin ranks just behind Mao as history’s second greatest mass murderer, with Hitler coming in third—all committed socialists of one sort or another.”

California’s Disastrous State Illustrates The Limits Of Progressivism.

November 2, 2019

California is nearing the logical limits of progressive adventurism in policy and politics. Californians flip their switches unsure of whether the lights will go on. Many are careful about what they say, terrified of progressive thought police who seem more worried about critics than criminals.

Two Bernies. One Creates Value and Jobs and Improves Lives. The Other Destroys.

November 1, 2019

Home Depot currently employs more than 400,000. Since its inception, it has created millions of jobs. Home Depot also provided health care insurance for millions of families whose husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers have worked for the company. Home Depot's vendors, many of them small businesses that have increased in value, have also created jobs as they have grown along with the chain.

What Exactly Is Political Economy? It’s Nothing But Three Big Myths (Busted Here).

October 31, 2019

Another Big Myth: because all that is good in our social and economic relations is made possible by the state, each of us is deeply and forever in debt to the state. The state is supposed to be owed by each of us everlasting thanks and offerings.

The Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Who Rejects Hollywood’s Totalitarian Lovefest – Clint Eastwood

October 30, 2019

Like a great artist integrates abstract concepts into a philosophical theme, Clint Eastwood delivered a complex assortment of characters, each wrestling with conflicting moral choices, and all operating in an environment of fear. For the moviegoer, it challenges everything we thought we knew about the heroes and villains of the Wild West.

Is Democracy Doomed To Die? Unfortunately, That’s Just Wishful Thinking.

October 29, 2019

Moral and social consensus is breaking down in Western countries; and to whatever extent it is still present, it is being increasingly imposed from above. Present trends toward intrusive bureaucratic government providing “democratic” socialization will not likely be reversed in the near future.

Universities Breed Anger, Ignorance And Ingratitude.

October 27, 2019

Campus activism has replaced the old university creed of disinterested inquiry. Students are starting to resemble military recruits in boot camp, prepping to become hardened social-justice warriors on the frontlines of America’s new wars over climate change, gun control, abortion, and identity politics

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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?