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Sarah Skwire encourages us to travel – and to learn from doing so [2].
George Selgin responds brilliantly to the boorish David Graeber [3].
Shikha Dalmia is rightly concerned by the increasing racism and nativism among conservatives [4].
My former research assistant Mark Perry reflects on socialism’s propensity to fail [5].
At his Facebook page, Bob Higgs yet again conveys an important truth concisely and eloquently [6]:
To believe in government as we know it is to accept that an enormous range of problems and issues can be resolved only by overwhelming violence and the threat of violence; to reject truth, beauty, love, and peace and to embrace instead lies, ugliness, hatred, and war; to presume that mature human beings can do no better than a group of ill-behaved, nasty little toddlers brawling in a sandbox.
The so-called ‘war on drugs’ was – is – indeed a war on people, especially on minorities [7]. (One of my regrets for being someone with no religious beliefs is that I cannot console myself with the thought that scumbags such as Richard Nixon are now roasting agonizingly in hell.)