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  • Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America

    Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America0

    Americans have become afraid of change. That’s the seemingly counterintuitive observation of Tyler Cowen’s newly released book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Change. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who runs perhaps the most popular economics blog in the world, Marginal Revolution. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping

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  • College Professor Under Siege for Challenging Transgender Orthodoxy

    College Professor Under Siege for Challenging Transgender Orthodoxy0

    A Boise State University professor recently learned what happens when you challenge left-wing social narratives on college campuses. Scott Yenor, a tenured professor, has been under siege on campus after publishing articles with The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Signal about feminism and the transgender movement. In those articles, Yenor explained the similarity in philosophy

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  • Benjamin Constant: The Greatest French Libertarian Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of

    Benjamin Constant: The Greatest French Libertarian Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of0

    October 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Constant, who Nicholas Capaldi termed “the key thinker in the French classical liberal tradition between Montesquieu and Tocqueville,” and Isaiah Berlin characterized as “the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy.” One might expect that with such plaudits, Constant’s quarter-millennium anniversary would

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  • Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres

    Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres0

    To minimize the chances of another horrific massacre like that in Las Vegas, imaginative risk assessments must be made and acted on by ordinary citizens, organizations that sponsor events, and state and local authorities. The most ineffective, irrelevant reaction would be for Congress to enact yet more gun control legislation. While the federal Gun Control

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  • What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny

    What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny0

    What makes a good leader? This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As a professor of classical languages and literature for more than 30 years, I marvel at our insistence on addressing this question as if it were brand new. Centuries ago, myths helped the Greeks learn

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  • Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War

    Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War0

    With the horrific shooting that recently took place in Las Vegas, debates over gun control have been given center stage in our media and politics once again. And while every pundit seems to have their own surefire way of combatting gun violence, they all gloss over the elephant in the room. Which is, although mass

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