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Aristophanes, Central Planning, and the Enduring Appeal of Utopian Fantasies
The idea that an omniscient computer can automate planning and remove human flaws from the process is a fantasy.
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The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government
Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government’s role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
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Why Art Schools Are Disappearing
Art programs need to teach students the skills they need to live a life in the art of their time.
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Why We Need More Intellectual Humility and Less Moral Outrage
The trait "intellectual humility" has received a lot of attention in recent years, largely due to some pioneering research by psychologists Cameron Hopkin and Stacey McElroy-Heltzel.
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Charters Have Achieved Their Original Goal: Innovation
Charter schools questioned the low expectations that schools place on poor students and challenged the now popular assumption that student-led project learning is the best practice
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How to Talk to Children about Climate Change
If in coming years we hope to curb the naive governmental interventions that bring so much ruin to the world, we need to address this belief in the efficacy of government.
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The History of Gun Background Checks
Whether you like them or not, background checks are here to stay for gun owners and gun purchasers—but they are not the saving grace that some make them out to be.
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Rising Education Costs Stem Primarily from More Teachers and Bigger Salaries, Not Administrative Bloat
According to a new George Mason University study, schools are paying teachers (and faculty) more in real terms, and have hired more of them.
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Facebook’s Fate May Hinge on Two Key Questions
Whether or not Facebook is actually biased, it may soon confront regulation or breakup.
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Why Cosmetic Procedures Are Getting Cheaper
Between 1998 and 2018, the average cost of cosmetic procedures rose at a slower pace than inflation.
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Today’s Schools Are Yesterday’s Streetcars: How Technology Will Transform Education
Like the streetcar and horse-and-buggy, institutional schooling will become a cultural relic, a quaint reminder of yesteryear.
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What the War on Poverty and the Vietnam War Had in Common
Modern-day America is still Great Society’s America but with a way more powerful federal bureaucracy.
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For Affordable Housing, Let Supply Meet Demand
Rather than subsidizing traditional affordable housing, conservatives have pushed to liberalize land use as a way to preserve options for everyone.
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Why a 15% Interest Cap on Loans Would Hurt the People It’s Intended to Help
Millions of consumers nationwide depend on access to small loans. Limiting the rate of charge to 15 percent per year will not make these loans cheaper.
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Adam Smith Reveals the Rub in the SAT’s "Adversity Score"
The new ECD score is based on factors such as the student's neighborhood crime levels, poverty, and schools.
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Tariffs on Chinese Goods Cost American Households $831 Annually, Fed Study Finds
The trade war is costing American households nearly $1000 each on average, according to the New York Fed.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s Gardening Advice Echoes the Hubris of Mao’s Great Leap Forward
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to extend identity politics to vegetables.
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Is the Third-Person Effect Driving Calls to Regulate Facebook?
Much of the criticism of Facebook relates to how the company’s algorithms target users with advertising, and the “echo chambers” that show users ideologically slanted content.
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Why Lessons of Liberty Are Crucial for Children
By ensuring that our children begin learning these ideas at an early age, we not only impart the protection of the law, but also a sense of civility, strength, and responsibility.
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What's Really Behind the High Overdose Rate of Fentanyl
Prohibition, not fentanyl, is the real killer.