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Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the...
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Thomas A. Berry Are you graduating from law school in 2026, or are you a lawyer with roughly 0–2 years of legal experience? Do you...
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Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward...
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Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
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The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced...
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Patrick G. Eddington US Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑AZ). In mid-July 1941, anti-interventionist Senator Burton Wheeler (D‑MT) sent 1,000,000 postcards to Americans across the country,...
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Jeffrey A. Singer On November 6, President Donald Trump announced that the government will refrain from tariffs on Eli Lilly’s and Novo Nordisk’s imported...
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Jeffrey Miron States and cities never seem to tire of hiking their minimum wages, with predictable effects: On April 1, 2024, California raised its...
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Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner Over the past year, several heartbreaking accounts of young people who have had tragic and damaging experiences with AI...
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If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state...