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  • The Economics of ‘Mending Wall’

    The Economics of ‘Mending Wall’3

    Mending Wall, the endearing 1914 poem by Robert Frost, offers important lessons about economics and cooperation. While the poem contains lessons about balancing tolerance and acceptance, modernity and tradition, and perhaps the efficacy of national borders, it remains open to interpretation. The surface-level message, repeated twice in the poem, is that “good fences make good neighbors,” which

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  • The Economic Illiteracy of Bernie Sanders

    The Economic Illiteracy of Bernie Sanders0

      In a recent piece for the Guardian, Bernie Sanders protests the dehumanizing exploitation of workers currently employed by Disneyland, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. What starts as a few heart-throbbing anecdotes about individuals struggling to make ends meet readily segues into the usual narrative blending anti-capitalist banalities with mishandled economic data. 

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  • The Eco-Gospel According to Saint Greta

    The Eco-Gospel According to Saint Greta0

    Teenage eco-evangelist Greta Thunberg, who has gone on school-strike to force politicians to ‘panic’ about ‘climate change,’ has addressed the House of Commons and even met the Pope, has proved such a hit among like-minded individuals that she is regarded as a living saint. Environmentalism is fast becoming a religion, and there is even more

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  • The Eclipse of Europe

    The Eclipse of Europe0

    For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history. Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia—along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history’s greatest battles. Result: Europe’s

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  • The Easiest Holiday Gift that Everyone Really Wants

    The Easiest Holiday Gift that Everyone Really Wants0

    For twenty years, I offered seminars in Latin, history, and literature to home-educated students. When the Christmas season rolled around, I brought paper, envelopes, and stamps to class, and asked students to write a letter of gratitude to someone who had positively influenced their lives. Some wrote to their parents, some to relatives, others to

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  • The Dystopian Future Is Here

    The Dystopian Future Is Here0

    Once, we told stories of rescuing women in distress. Now, we hand them a prescription for assisted suicide. Two young women in the Netherlands, Jolanda Fun and Zoraya ter Beek, have recently done media interviews explaining their respective decisions to pursue euthanasia, despite being physically healthy. Fun, who planned to end her life on her 34th birthday

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