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The Politicization Of Everything: A Ransom Note From Your Kids’ School.

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Please think about what was said. It reads as kind of a ransom note. Vote for science-reverent candidate Joe Biden, or else….Really, what else could the utterance mean? What does November 3rd have to do with re-opening schools? Why would it be safer to open on the 4th of November versus the present?

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Economics For Individuals: Save Like A Pessimist, Invest Like An Optimist.

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Compounding is easy to underestimate because it’s not intuitive, even for smart people. If the odds are in your favor and you can keep them in your favor for a long time, you shouldn’t just be an optimist. You should be a ridiculous, full-blown, giddy optimistic. Which is also what history tells us, isn’t it?

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How Bad Teaching Is Tearing America Apart.

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Things are getting worse. Intellectual error has become a threat to the well-being of the nation. A truly massive tragedy is building.” Schools “are diminishing our national unity and our basic competence.”

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The Noble Lie: Government Is Good.

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The Plato/Socrates version may well have been satirical; the notion of the “Noble Lie” may have been a kind of goof on the idea of self-important leaders. But the modern Bernie Sanders / Elizabeth Warren “social justice” version is decidedly unironic, and therefore more dangerous by far.

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Consensus Is An Outmoded Top-Down Concept. Social Media Enables Spontaneous Order To Emerge From The Competition Of Ideas.

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We think of social media with its inescapable cacophony as a force dividing us. But the problem is our assumption that “united” means “doing and thinking the same thing.” Ironically, exactly this networked technology enables us to think and do different things while remaining connected rather than isolated, and therefore, be greater than the sum of our parts.

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Due To Their Systematic Decision-Making Failure, Politicians Are Never To Be Trusted With Taxpayer Money.

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No matter what kind of crisis hits, government officials only have a few tools in their toolbox. These tools are spending money, printing money, bailing out companies, restricting freedom, and otherwise expanding government’s powers. These are the “tools” used during pandemics, recessions great or modest, after terrorist attacks, and in the wake of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.

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