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  • How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible

    How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible1

    Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more

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  • It’s Light Bulb Liberation Day

    It’s Light Bulb Liberation Day0

    The Department of Energy is putting down its guns and withdrawing troops in the war on the incandescent bulb that began in 2007. It’s pretty late in the day; the last factory to make them in the U.S. shut down in 2010. It’s hard to find them in a store, in which case: thank goodness

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  • The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis

    The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis0

    Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will

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  • Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?

    Karl Marx: Intellectual Father of the 1619 Project?0

    The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to establish the moment the first slave ship landed in Virginia as “a new point of origin for our national story,” because “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” The series – which attempts to link American prosperity, our economic system, even our lack of a single-payer healthcare system to slavery – can count

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  • Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?

    Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?0

    Today, CNN is televising a “climate crisis town hall” for Democratic presidential candidates. Meanwhile, Hurricane Dorian, after tearing through the Bahamas, is menacing Florida and the East Coast. The candidates will surely point to the hurricane as they call for drastic measures against climate change. Tweeting about Dorian, Bernie Sanders has already offered his own

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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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