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• Why Americans are Getting Dumber and How to Fix It
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  Annie Holmquist | Tuesday, January 3, 2017

  A 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.

• The Intellectual Journey of Robert Higgs
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  Christopher Coyne | Saturday, December 31, 2016

  Bob’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.

• The Brilliance of Thomas Sowell: A Tribute
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  Mark J. Perry | Wednesday, December 28, 2016

  There 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

• Political Lessons from “Blazing Saddles” and “Bananas”
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  K. L. Billingsley | Tuesday, October 4, 2016

  Governor 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.

• Don’t Blame Capitalism for Your Pricey EpiPen
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  Jay Stooksberry | Thursday, August 25, 2016

  The 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.

• Good Jurors Nullify Bad Laws: Reclaiming the Right of Every Juror
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  Nathan Tschepik | Tuesday, August 2, 2016

  Today’s juries serve with their hands tied and eyes closed, a fact that serves no one but overzealous prosecutors.

• What “Free” College Can’t Fix
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  Preston Cooper | Friday, January 22, 2016

  Barely a third of college enrollees emerge from the system with both a degree and a job that needs one.

• In Praise of Capitalist Globalization
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  Corey Iacono | Thursday, July 2, 2015

  In this era of “savage capitalism,” the world has seen unprecedented declines in poverty and increases in global welfare.

• From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, September 4, 2009
  I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently.
• Obama Pledges Pricey
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, November 27, 2008
  “President-elect Barack Obama promised on Monday to jolt the faltering U.S. economy with a costly stimulus package next year and introduced the team that will help him navigate the global financial crisis.” (Reuters, Tuesday)
  
  “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” –J.M. Keynes
  
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  “An Unstimulating Idea” by Sheldon Richman