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  • Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?

    Why Is Higher Ed So Expensive?2

    Two things seem like they should go without saying: People use their own money more efficiently than they use someone else’s, and the more you subsidize a thing the more of it you tend to get. Both profoundly apply to American higher education, a teetering tower of ivory made simultaneously skyscraping and bloated by federal

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  • Conservatism Is About More Than Economics

    Conservatism Is About More Than Economics2

    Roger Scruton was perhaps the greatest conservative thinker of the modern era, and like all great thinkers, he didn’t spare his own side from critique. For example, he often pointed out that modern conservatives are happy to cheer on capitalism, but they rarely say anything about conserving traditional ways of life—or the natural environment. Are

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  • Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

    Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of2

    We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilization—often centered on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. Among radical leftists, the consensus is that these elements are evil, but given that each is currently or historically integral to civilization as we know it, it’s worth examining the data to determine whether they

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  • Vaccine Mandates Likely Exacerbated Healthcare Worker Shortage, New Research Shows

    Vaccine Mandates Likely Exacerbated Healthcare Worker Shortage, New Research Shows0

    In his book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt makes a famous distinction between good and bad economists: The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect

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  • Why Karl Marx Desperately Needed Jordan Peterson’s Advice

    Why Karl Marx Desperately Needed Jordan Peterson’s Advice6

    As I make my way through Paul Kengor’s wonderful book The Devil and Karl Marx, numerous things stand out about the father of communism. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx. It was almost as if all of the worst traits of humanity were

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  • Can Adam Smith Reach Gen Z?

    Can Adam Smith Reach Gen Z?1

    There’s a common assumption among the older generations that today’s college students are more swayed by socialism than ever before. There’s fear that this generation may be lost to the alluring temptations of “free” government programs and centrally planned economies. As a college professor over the past seven years, I have not found this to be the case. Make no mistake, the heralds of

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