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  • Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming

    Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming0

    Many people may not know that in 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady rolled out a cookbook. For just $200, readers could get a “living document” dishing all the secrets of the star quarterback’s heavily (and strangely) regimented diet. The “TB12-alligned nutrition plan” had a total of 89 recipes. The notion that people would pay $200

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  • Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy

    Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy0

    When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History, fills in some very substantial gaps, particularly with regard to American

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  • Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela

    Why America Shouldn’t Be Too Concerned About Venezuela0

    Perhaps Karl Marx’s greatest (and most quoted) aphorism is: “History repeats itself; once as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Nowhere is the truth of that clearer than in the case of Venezuela. When the late Hugo Chavez was elected to the presidency there in 1998, everybody in Washington imagined that this was a replay

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  • Why America Shouldn’t Make College ‘Free’

    Why America Shouldn’t Make College ‘Free’1

    How often are we told by our friends on the left that America ought to follow the lead of Europe, specifically western Europe, and make college “free”? Pretty often, by my reckoning. In the waning years of my community college teaching days a student raised that very matter on the first day of class. Obviously,

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  • Why America Is Experiencing Two Very Different Economic Recoveries

    Why America Is Experiencing Two Very Different Economic Recoveries0

    Nations across the world are still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered a global recession following economic lockdowns enforced by most developed nations around the world. New estimates put the economic losses at more than $16 trillion, and the United States saw its GDP shrink 9.5 percent between April and June, its largest drop

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  • Why America Has So Many Laws

    Why America Has So Many Laws0

    • February 10, 2016

    There are virtue-based societies, and there are rule-based societies. America has become the latter. In a virtue-based society, the people are a particular community that have a shared understanding of human life and a shared goal. The virtues are the behavioral habits that help achieve this goal—such as prudence, justice, courage, and temperance—and the community’s

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