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  • Keynes in 1930: Americans Will Have 15-Hour Work Week by 2030 (Ha!)

    Keynes in 1930: Americans Will Have 15-Hour Work Week by 2030 (Ha!)0

    In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 the American economy would be so productive as to allow for a 15-hour work week, according to a recent story in The Atlantic. As The Atlantic reminds us, three quarters of the way there, we’re not even close. For a while it appeared that Keynes’s

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  • Keynes and the Myth of Permanent Deficit Spending

    Keynes and the Myth of Permanent Deficit Spending0

    The issue of ongoing and growing governmental deficits has arisen once again, as it does from time to time in U.S politics, but those who are raising the issue most critically now are liberal Democrats, many of whom have spent most of their time until this moment advocating programs and public spending which made federal

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  • Ketanji Brown Jackson Said <i>What</i> About the First Amendment?

    Ketanji Brown Jackson Said What About the First Amendment?7

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) raised eyebrows last week for remarks she made about the First Amendment during oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, a landmark case scrutinizing the federal government’s say over social media content. Justice Jackson is the most recent appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, having been nominated by President

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  • Kentucky Mayor Issues Open Invitation to Racists Everywhere

    Kentucky Mayor Issues Open Invitation to Racists Everywhere0

    Okay, so the last time someone took down a Confederate monument, hundreds of racists showed up and precipitated a violent clash with anti-racist demonstrators, some of whom unwisely brought weapons themselves. The result was someone dying. So you’re the major of an arguably Southern town—Lexington, in my home state of Kentucky—and what do you do? You

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  • Kenosha’s Return to the State of Nature

    Kenosha’s Return to the State of Nature0

    On August 28, lawyers representing accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse issued a statement asserting that the 17-year-old “was protecting life and community because his state and local government failed” and that he “was viciously attacked by mob and fearing for his life exercised his God-given and constitutional right to self-defense” when he shot three protestors on the

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  • Kellyanne Conway and the Brave New Feminist World

    Kellyanne Conway and the Brave New Feminist World0

    In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, children are raised collectively in institutions rather than nurtured by their mothers. In fact, motherhood is frowned upon. I was reminded of this last week, when Kellyanne Conway announced her decision not to accept a White House position in order to be with her children. Conway had to endure the

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