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  • Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies

    Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies0

    Kristian Niemietz, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Institute for Economic Affairs, London 2019, 374 pages. What would you say to an amateur chef who baked a cake following a certain recipe only for everyone who ate a slice to fall ill quickly afterward? Being such an enthusiastic baker, they bake the same cake

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  • Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading

    Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading0

    In a year where scientists seemed to have gotten everything wrong, a book attempting to explain why is bizarrely relevant. Of course, science was in deep trouble long before the pandemic began and Stuart Ritchie’s excellent Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth had been long in the making.

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  • Why So Many Men Are Friendless

    Why So Many Men Are Friendless0

    A popular VICE article sets out to determine “Why Millions of Men Lose Friends in Their Twenties.” The impetus for the article was a 2014 YouGov poll conducted in the UK that found that 2.5 million men “over the age of 18 don’t have a close friend they would discuss a serious life problem with.”

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  • Why So Many Lovers Don’t ‘Grow Old with Me’

    Why So Many Lovers Don’t ‘Grow Old with Me’0

    When holidays like Valentine’s Day come upon us, it seems like every other news article has something to do with the escalation of one-night stands via Tinder, the state of divorce rates, and the ways one can know if an individual is “the one.” So when an article tackles long-term, consistent love – what many

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  • Why So Many Intellectuals Fail to Grasp the Nature of the State

    Why So Many Intellectuals Fail to Grasp the Nature of the State0

    It took me a long time to come to grips with the nature of the state. Once I had done so, at least so far as the fundamentals are concerned, I found it almost amusing to ponder how so many analysts and writers, some of them deep, first-rate thinkers, discuss the matter. For the great

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  • Why So Many Families Are Uprooting and Fleeing to Freer States

    Why So Many Families Are Uprooting and Fleeing to Freer States0

    Emily Burns had every intention of staying in Massachusetts. A longtime Boston resident, she, her husband, and three children left the city to settle in the upscale suburb of Newton in January 2020.  What followed were two years of ongoing disruption and frustration. Prolonged school closures and continued coronavirus policies such as mask mandates angered

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