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Colleen Hroncich For seven years, Amber Dawson homeschooled her kids while wishing for a different kind of school. “I just kept saying, ‘If there...
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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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A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.
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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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Among the criticisms of capitalism is that it supposedly creates meaningless jobs created by villainous capitalists to keep people docile. However, it is state...
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Jeffrey A. Singer This weekend, we once again go through the ritual of “falling back” after “springing forward” last March as Daylight Saving Time...
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Michael F. Cannon I make an appearance on the latest episode of the Fresh Freedom podcast with Rep. Eric Burleson (R‑MO), Chris Jacobs, and...
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When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.