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• Liberty to Learn
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  Kerry McDonald | Thursday, December 6, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Liberty to Learn! Introduction For most of human history, until quite recently, education and schooling were separate and distinct. When the Pilgrims arrived on the shores of the New World in 1620, searching for personal liberty and freedom of expression, the expectation for educating […]
• Baptists and Bootleggers in the Global War on Cash
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  Lawrence H. White | Wednesday, February 1, 2017

  Basic economics tells us that voluntary trade is mutually beneficial. Government policies that compel or ban actions cannot be presumed beneficial, including when it reduces their range of payment options.

• Homeschoolers: It’s for the Children
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Friday, July 3, 2015

  The verdict is in: the one ingredient that makes the most difference in how well and how much children learn is parental involvement. 

• Race, Culture, and the Digital Divide
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  Larry Schweikart | Wednesday, May 1, 2002
  Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial “digital divide,” a term concocted to portray “haves and have nots” in the world of the Internet. The paper “Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access […]
• Why Gold Is Such an Effective Weapon Against the Government’s Monetary Schemes
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  Joshua D. Glawson | Saturday, April 15, 2023

  As Ron Paul remarked: “Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.”

• Why the ‘Zombie Drug’ Spreading Across the US Should Remain Off the Schedule I List
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  Peter Clark | Friday, March 3, 2023

  The emerging street drug “tranq” has been dubbed the “zombie drug” because leaves users with open sores and a disoriented gait.

  Unfortunately, prohibition would likely only make matters worse.

• ’Tis the Season for Deadweight Losses. Should We Care?
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  Bruce Rottman | Wednesday, December 21, 2022

  In economics, a deadweight loss is as bad as it sounds.

• Why the Middle Class Should Start Paying Attention to the Death Tax
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  Daniel Kowalski | Wednesday, July 28, 2021

  President Biden is looking to widen the “death tax” base to include estates valued at $1 million—even if those gains are unrealized.

  Here’s what that means for Americans. 

• That Ship That Blocked the Suez Did What Tariffs Do Every Day
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  Patrick Carroll | Friday, April 2, 2021

  “For the erection of tariff walls has the same effect as the erection of real walls.”
  —Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

• What Government Poverty Statistics Leave Out
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  James D. Agresti | Sunday, February 2, 2020

  While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.”