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Week in Review: May 6, 2017

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Blog05/05/2017
Donald Trump had a good week in Washington. Unfortunately, good news for politicians is often bad news for Americans.

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The Myth of the "Popular Will"

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Blog05/03/2017
Democracy often relies on conflating society with the state. Unfortunately, this confusion can lead to the politicization of every facet of daily life.

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How Liberty Defined Western Civilization

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Blog05/03/2017
The idea of liberty is and has always been peculiar to the West.

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The Horrors of Communist China

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Blog05/01/2017
China became between 1949 and 1976 an experiment in total control unlike anything else in history.

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Are Oil Prices to Blame for the Venezuelan Crisis?

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Blog04/26/2017
The Venezuelan crisis is anything but a crisis caused by the fall in oil prices.

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Mises on Open Borders

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Blog04/26/2017
Ludwig von Mises supported “liberal nationalism,” one of the most important political movements of the 19th century.

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Was J.B. Say an Austrian Economist?

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Blog04/26/2017
Jean-Baptiste Say, along with A.R.J. Turgot and Frédéric Bastiat, helped pave the way for Austrian economics.

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We're All Dictators Now

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Blog04/13/2017
Riszard Legutko contends that the democratic socialists have been far more successful at destroying freedom than the Soviet communists ever were.

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Can Ecuador Learn Something from Peru?

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Blog04/02/2017
Although he did so to a lesser degree than some others, President Rafael Correa in Ecuador embraced "21st-Century socialism." How has Ecuador fared?

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How the Global Drug War Pushed Down Heroin Prices

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Blog03/23/2017
As the Drug War attacked heroin production in one place, it encouraged increases in heroin production in other places, pushing down global prices.

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