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Reputation Works Better Than Regulation: Why Demand Should Determine Prices
“As consumers, we must remember that in a market-based system, consumers determine what is of value, what is demanded, and what is consumed. To maintain such authority, we would be wise to use our wallets, rather than Washington cronies, to curtail costs.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Pathologies of Victimhood
“We tend to find what we set out looking for, and when persons operate with the assumption that others are out to victimize them, their expectations tend to be fulfilled.” ~ Richard Gunderman
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The Backwards Insinuation That Amazon Hires ‘Dangerous Truck Drivers’
“The reality is that Amazon invests tens of billions every year with a goal of improving working conditions and pay, and does so – yes – with an eye on the ‘bottom line.’” ~ John Tamny
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A Constitutionalist Shift
“Over the past century and a half, the federal government has quietly morphed from a government based on a constitution to a government based on a constitutional tradition.” ~ James R. Harrigan & Antony Davies
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Lessons From Biden’s Disinformation Board Debacle
“The trillions of pages of new secrets that the U.S. government creates each year is a disinformation entitlement program. In a city that already had hundreds of full-time political appointees whose task is to lie to the America public, why was another board needed?” ~ James Bovard
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The Suicide of the American Historical Association
“In this branch of academia, it does not matter whether the 1619 Project was truthful or factually accurate. The only concerns are whether its narrative can be weaponized for a political cause or used to deflect scrutiny of the same.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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Bug Off and Let People Enjoy Their Food
“The problem isn’t us having a ‘yuck factor’ to dignified mealworms and astounding fly larvae. The problem is them declaring such things ‘the future of food’ and telling us that our disgust is a threat to the world.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Fit to Print? UNC’s Settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones is Bad News
“It turns out the $75,000 wasn’t quite enough. As part of her settlement, she somehow managed to secure a bunch of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) sinecures for 20 university administrators.” ~ Phillip W. Magness & James R. Harrigan
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The Nostalgic Genius of Stranger Things
“The Duffer Brothers used nostalgia to shift the rules of our exhausted contemporary discourse, slipping free from some of the constraints that have straightjacketed so much of our cultural life in recent years.” ~ Rachel Lu
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A Cooler Assessment of Heatwave Deaths
“Chasing after sensational headlines predicting doom and gloom do us a disservice. It hides the progress we have made historically and prevents us from using this history to guide public discussions.” ~ Vincent Geloso
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This Old House Testifies to the Marvels of the Market Economy
“It’s impossible to convey in words the amount of specialized knowledge, as well as the amazingness of modern building materials and tools, that are routinely, and entertainingly displayed in each and every episode of This Old House.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Samuel Gregg Joins AIER to Lead Initiative Defending Freedom, Combatting Collectivism
“As part of his new role as Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and a Senior Research Faculty member, Dr. Gregg will be expanding AIER’s research initiatives in both scholarly and popular venues.” ~ AIER
