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  • Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom

    Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom0

    Of all the consumer products one might have expected to become a flashpoint for political controversy, the humble plastic drinking straw is an unlikely contender. Leap into the headlines it has, though, with communities like Seattle and San Francisco recently enacting bans on disposable straws. The city council of Santa Barbara, California, initially voted for a ban

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  • Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary

    Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary0

    When it comes to education reform, there are generally two camps: those who want to improve the existing mass compulsory schooling system through tweaking and tuning and those who want to build something entirely new and different. Not surprisingly, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in the “think different” camp, advocating for school choice and vouchers,

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  • Why Stereotypes Can Be Rational

    Why Stereotypes Can Be Rational6

    Few terms get worse press than stereotype. We are constantly told that it is bad, bad, bad and never, ever justified, in any situation. And yet it is a deeply innate element of human reasoning. Even when you try to force people to stop doing it, they do it anyway. This likely means it must

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  • Why Speaking Like Pepé Le Pew May Soon Be a Crime in France

    Why Speaking Like Pepé Le Pew May Soon Be a Crime in France0

    Reuters reports that Laetitia Avia, a member of the French parliament, has said she is proposing a bill that would classify mocking a regional accent (so called “glottophobia“) as a form of prohibited discrimination. Avia’s proposal comes after former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, a long-time member of the Socialist Party, mocked a journalist’s heavy accent by asking if someone

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  • Why Some Revolutions Fail

    Why Some Revolutions Fail0

    Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English statesman Edmund Burke saw storm clouds on the horizon. Under the banner of “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” the French revolutionaries not only attacked the dreaded Bastille prison in Paris. They assaulted the most important historic institutions in France: the monarchy, the

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  • Why Some of Us Work So Hard

    Why Some of Us Work So Hard0

    We’ve all heard the admonitions about “workaholism”: how some people sacrifice not just fun, but also family life and even their own lives, by working insane hours when they don’t really have to. And all of us also know people who work very long hours not because they’re workaholics, but because they don’t get paid

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