Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions…
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The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and…
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Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly…
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Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting…
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While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the…
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Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs…
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For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun…
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A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become…
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Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can…