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  • How Marcus Aurelius Influenced Adam Smith (No, Really)

    How Marcus Aurelius Influenced Adam Smith (No, Really)0

    Who Was Marcus Aurelius? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the last of the five good emperors of Rome. He was born in 121 AD, reluctantly became emperor in 161 AD, and reigned for 19 years until his death in 180 AD. His reign was punctuated by numerous wars during which he repelled Rome’s enemies in

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  • How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

    How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0

    On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with

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  • How Many Libertarians Are There?

    How Many Libertarians Are There?0

    There has been debate this week about how many libertarians there are. The answer is: it depends on how you measure it and how you define libertarian. The overwhelming body of literature, however, using a variety of different methods and different definitions, suggests that libertarians comprise about 10-20% of the population, but may range from

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  • How Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns?

    How Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns?0

    Almost all of the lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour also hired unpaid interns to supplement their staffs, a survey shows. A report from the Employment Policies Institute reveals that 174 of the bill’s 184 co-sponsors, or 95 percent, hire interns who are paid nothing. “It’s hypocritical to

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  • How Machiavellian Are You?

    How Machiavellian Are You?0

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  • How Low-Energy Parents Can Get Their Children to Cooperate

    How Low-Energy Parents Can Get Their Children to Cooperate0

    These days I look at most things through the lens of temperament. I know people who run their own businesses, get up at four or five AM to go running or cycling, socialise broadly, and oversee their young children’s busy lives while even looking after other people’s children at the same time. These people are

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