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Societies prosper when they’re based around openness to innovation and outsiders, but there’s no guarantee that such an embrace will last forever. Indeed, humanity spent hundreds of thousands of years living in small, subsistent tribes, ....
History has featured several societies defined by openness. From Ancient Greece, to the Abbasid Caliphate, to China’s Song Dynasty, many cultures embraced trade and innovation for a time. But these societies eventually all turned inward, ....
…. is from Alyssa’s Ahlghen’s article “Panic, power and the pandemic“: We have lost our minds. We have said goodbye to any semblance of rationality or assessment of data and said hello to illogical alarmism. ....
…. is from Edward Glaeser’s article “How to Fix American Capitalism“: What many young people today don’t realize is that socialism is a machine for empowering insiders. Few insiders have ever been rewarded more assiduously ....
…. is from Don Boudreaux’s article “Tyranny During Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims“: Because tyranny always enjoys its victims’ widespread support, most people living under it are unaware of their ghastly fate. And ....
My latest animated “bar chart race” visualization above is an updated and improved version of this visualization from a year ago and above displays per capita GDP (in current US dollars) for all 12 South ....
If President Trump wanted the Cuban community in Florida to worry that the Biden Democrats were soft on socialism, it seems to have worked. Cuban-Americans helped the president defy the polls and win the state. ....
With any crisis, there always comes accusations, recriminations, and second guessing on what should have or should not have been done. Obviously, the Trump loathing media has just become annoying noise with their incessant ....
After decades of flirting with and even sliding into socialism, Democrats are faced with actually voting for socialism. Oddly enough, even Democrats are now reluctant to leap off the leftist cliff into the socialist ....
Gripped by intense turmoil after a week of incredible failures, the Democrat Party is in a tailspin. The impeachment of President Trump crashed with a thud upon the inevitable acquittal that still has average ....