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Cracked-Up Slobodian

DemocracyEconomic FreedomProgressivismSocialismU.S. HistoryWorld HistoryOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Blog07/07/2023

Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical worker exploitation, and socialism is the only solution. In truth, market competition is the answer. 

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The Major Cause of Mass Poverty in Sudan

Economic FreedomLegal SystemMedia and CultureSocialism

Blog07/06/2023

Sudan has neither the governmental nor social institutions that allow people to develop and build wealth. Instead, people get handouts from the West, which does nothing to reduce poverty.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Demarcation of the Limits of State Activity

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Blog07/05/2023

Before there was Thomas Jefferson, there was Wilhelm von Humboldt, who saw the importance of guarding against the encroachment of state power.

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Will Jamaica Embrace True Economic Reform or Just More Socialism?

Bureaucracy and RegulationDemocracyEconomic FreedomProgressivismSocialism

Blog06/30/2023

Jamaica is on the road to becoming a republic, but will that lead to economic freedom or to the statism that has held back that country since independence from Great Britain?

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Call Rent Control What It Really Is: Theft

Bureaucracy and RegulationPrice ControlsSocialism

Blog06/15/2023

Rent control is all the rage with progressives, with several states and localities trying to impose it. However, when people have their property effectively—and legally—stolen, there are long-term consequences.

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Socialists Should Support Government Default: Their Forebears Certainly Did

Economic PolicySocialismTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

Blog06/13/2023

Socialists like Bernie Sanders and the editors of Jacobin have decried the possible US government debt default. Marx and Lenin would have vociferously disagreed.

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A Great Man Cannot Salvage a Bad Idea

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Blog06/08/2023

Einstein might have been one of history's most brilliant men, but even his great mind could not have made socialism work. Unfortunately, he wasn't smart enough to see that.

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To Avarice No Sanction

Economic FreedomPhilosophySocialism

Blog06/08/2023

What many people call government generosity Leonard Read called avarice.

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Review: Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

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Blog05/24/2023

While George Orwell wrote magnificently against totalitarianism, his attempt to defend socialism in The Road to Wigan Pier stumbled badly.

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Progressives Want to Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs but Need the Wealth They Create

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureProgressivismSocialismEntrepreneurship

Blog05/11/2023

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.

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