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  • The Myth of Rural “Assistance”

    The Myth of Rural “Assistance”1

    As the old country proverb goes, “if it’s happened once, it’s damned-shor’ gonna happen again.” Robert Wright’s forthcoming book, New Deals Exposed: How the Miseries of the Great Depression are Being Repeated Today, makes the convincing case that the sort of good-intentioned lunacy which marked New Deal policy failures is happening all over again, as the world

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  • The Myth of Romantic Love May be Ruining Your Health

    The Myth of Romantic Love May be Ruining Your Health0

    Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because it’s a myth, dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were joined together and sliced in two. Love, then, is the

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  • The Myth of Millennial Socialism

    The Myth of Millennial Socialism0

    My old man tells me he left college in the 1970s and walked into a job for life. He tells me his first home cost twice the average salary. Then he tells me, without a soupçon of jest, “things were still pretty tough back then.” His brow—unapologetically smooth for its 65 years, cheeks plumped fat and youthfully

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  • The Myth of Life Expectancy

    The Myth of Life Expectancy0

    “Well, yeah, but most people only lived to the age of 40 back then, so…” This is a common retort I see in response to comparisons between our modern age and the past. It’s intended as a mic drop that supposedly illustrates our superiority to our less scientifically-minded ancestors, who were apparently too wrapped up in superstitious

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  • The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis

    The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis0

    Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will

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  • The Myth of American Meritocracy

    The Myth of American Meritocracy0

    The most destructive and pervasive myth in America today is that we live in a meritocracy. Our elites, so the myth goes, earned their places at Yale and Harvard, on Wall Street and in Washington—not because of the accident of their birth, but because they are better, stronger, and smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they

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