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Markets and Marshals: How the Old West Used Private Enforcement to Deliver Justice
In the mid-to-late 19th century, crimes such as murder, robbery, and cattle rustling plagued America’s western frontier. Although the West was not quite as “wild” as Hollywood portrays, it was […]
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The Social Security Reform Bill Clinton Almost Brought to America
Twenty-five years ago, Bill Clinton was gearing up to “save” Social Security. The year was 1998, and the national mood was cautiously optimistic. Internet startups were booming, the Cold War […]
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France’s Financial Misery Is a Bad Omen for Other Countries
“History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes,” is a famous saying attributed to American author Mark Twain. When you read today’s news about the French government and its debt situation, […]
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Can the President Assassinate Suspected Criminals?
“I don’t give a sh*t what you call it.” So wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in response to journalist Brian Krassenstein, who questioned Vance’s assertion that assassinating suspected drug smugglers […]
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What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money
In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcolm McLean did something quietly radical: he placed 58 identical steel boxes onto a cargo ship in Newark and sent them to Houston. Those […]
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California’s $10 Million-a-Year STEM Equity Lab Fails to Deliver
In 2018, Democratic lawmakers in California created a new bureaucratic department, in part, to “close equity and achievement gaps” at higher education institutions in the state. Seven years later, a […]
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Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World
Earth is going to hit “peak population” before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp population declines, with shrinking […]
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The Hard Truth About the Abolition of Slavery
British satirist and cultural commentator Konstantin Kisin — author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (2022) — recently shared a debate clip from Doha, Qatar, in which he […]
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Are We Doomed to Repeat Economic History, Even When We Know It?
I regret it, but George Santayana’s famous statement, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is misleading at best. The statement implies that if we do […]
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Bolivia’s Defeat of Socialism Signals a Continental Realignment
It took 20 years to defeat Evo Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia through elections. Two decades of political battle lines, along with a so-called “cultural war,” run deep […]
