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  • Why Natural Depression Therapies Are Better Than Pills

    Why Natural Depression Therapies Are Better Than Pills0

    Winter is upon us. And with it comes the annual worsening of depressive symptoms. Sadly, in the United States, suicide continues to claim more lives than firearms, and suicide rates are increasing in nearly all states. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that death by suicide has increased by 30 per cent

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  • There’s a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men

    There’s a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men0

    Whenever it is reported that women make less money than men, it is automatically assumed that this must be the result of discrimination. What is seldom mentioned is the factors that go into these statistics. Are they talking about women who work the same hours as men? Who have the same level of seniority? Do

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  • My America, 1620

    My America, 16200

    In 1620, an extraordinary thing happened. At a small landing on the extreme western edge of the Atlantic Ocean, a boat named “Mayflower” rested just off shore of a rock, soon to be named Plymouth. Lost, but not mortally or dreadfully so, roughly 100 “sojourners” and 30 “strangers” arrived on November 11. With Autumn full

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  • Kanye West’s Private Firefighting Is a Force for Good

    Kanye West’s Private Firefighting Is a Force for Good0

    Kanye West is no stranger to public controversy. Arguably, his career has thrived on it. But unlike his previous squabbles, West is currently being attacked not for his typical outlandish commentary but for using private firefighters to help protect his southern California home from the devastating Woosley Fire. At least 58 people have been killed, and nearly

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  • The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria

    The Best Way to Fight Political Hysteria0

    The week after Halloween, my first-grade grandson asked if I was afraid of monsters. “Only human ones,” I said. The confusion on his face alerted me to shift gears. “No, I’m not afraid of monsters. The older you get, the less you are afraid of monsters.” He paused, then asked: “Are you afraid of tomatoes?”

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  • More Markets and Less Politics

    More Markets and Less Politics0

    Facebook is an excellent way to waste time. But it sometimes becomes a source of inspiration. Last week, I came across a post by economist Steve Horwitz in which he commented on a WSJ article about Israeli tech companies hiring Palestinian engineers due to a lack of qualified workers in the sector. In it, Horwitz

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  • Meat Eaters Beware: The (Es)Steak Tax is Coming

    Meat Eaters Beware: The (Es)Steak Tax is Coming0

    • November 15, 2018

    Some economists want to make it more expensive for the less well-off to enjoy a clear revealed pleasure: eating red and processed meat. The average household in the poorest fifth of the income distribution dedicates 1.3 percent of spending towards it. That’s over double average household spending in the richest quintile. Yet meat is now a new “public

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  • Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals

    Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals0

    Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the

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  • Are Males Being Discriminated Against on College Campuses?

    Are Males Being Discriminated Against on College Campuses?0

    A good case can be made that males are discriminated against on college campuses, and the discrimination has grown over time. Men are vastly outnumbered in America’s universities—in the fall of 2016, there were 2,667,000 more women studying than men. Not only are they significantly outnumbered, men are often disproportionately harshly treated in campus disciplinary

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