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Both Students and Teachers Deserve Better Than This
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Eddie Ferrara | Monday, March 6, 2017The performance of the US education system has been stagnant for decades. It’s not working for students. It’s not working for teachers. And it’s only getting more expensive over time.
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Why Americans are Getting Dumber and How to Fix It
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Annie Holmquist | Tuesday, January 3, 2017A fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 would be considered college level material today. The way out of this problem is to get children out of the institutional mode of schooling.
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The Intellectual Journey of Robert Higgs
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Christopher Coyne | Saturday, December 31, 2016Bob’s career serves as a wonderful example for younger scholars seeking to be productive and influential teachers, scholars, and editors. Bob was the F. A. Hayek Distinguished Visiting Professor with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University during the 2015–2016 academic year.
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The Brilliance of Thomas Sowell: A Tribute
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Mark J. Perry | Wednesday, December 28, 2016There is no economist alive today who has done more to eloquently, articulately, and persuasively advance the principles of economic freedom, limited government, individual liberty, and a free society than Thomas Sowell
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Political Lessons from “Blazing Saddles” and “Bananas”
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K. L. Billingsley | Tuesday, October 4, 2016Governor William J. Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) expresses outrage but says, “We’ve got to save our phony-baloney jobs,” perhaps the truest line in all of cinema.
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Don’t Blame Capitalism for Your Pricey EpiPen
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Jay Stooksberry | Thursday, August 25, 2016The recent increase in the price of the EpiPen has many critics turning their mob rage toward the philosophical tenets of capitalism. The only problem is that this has nothing to do with free-market capitalism.
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Good Jurors Nullify Bad Laws: Reclaiming the Right of Every Juror
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Nathan Tschepik | Tuesday, August 2, 2016Today’s juries serve with their hands tied and eyes closed, a fact that serves no one but overzealous prosecutors.
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What “Free” College Can’t Fix
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Preston Cooper | Friday, January 22, 2016Barely a third of college enrollees emerge from the system with both a degree and a job that needs one.
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In Praise of Capitalist Globalization
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Corey Iacono | Thursday, July 2, 2015In this era of “savage capitalism,” the world has seen unprecedented declines in poverty and increases in global welfare.
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Fraser Institute’s “Ask the Professor”
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FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, September 29, 2009“Gym Now Stresses Cooperation, Not Competition” blared a headline in the July 5, 2000, edition of the New York Times. The story was about an elementary school where “confrontational” games, team sports, and elimination rounds were changed or scrapped so that differences between students’ athletic abilities would be minimized.