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Respect

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An Early American Libertarian Anarchist — Anne Hutchinson vs. The Theological Oligarchy

In Murray Rothbard's opinion, the early colonial controversialist Anne Hutchinson merits g...

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“All Effect and No Cause”: Colliding Branes, Bouncing Universes, Promiscuous Singularities, and Fashionable Nothings — Five Versions of How It All Began

The Big Bang cosmological model is in trouble, but its adherents, reluctant to abandon the...

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Dispelling Some Myths About the World’s Most Persecuted People

Genome studies a few years ago established — as per the Bible thousands of years before ...

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Bring on the Carbon Dioxide — The Upside of “Global Warming”

The implications of a recent study of spider lilies, of all things, might cause anthropoge...

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“Make Room! Make Room!” — For More Government Planning, That Is

The Royal Society "knows" there are too many people on Planet Earth, and they have a cunni...

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Video Mash

Moments with folks you'd probably want to avoid: GOVERNMENT MOTORS' CAR OF THE FUTURE A...

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How Much Do Modern Scientists Owe to Bible Thumpers?

... quite a lot, as it turns out: It is commonly supposed that when in the early modern pe...

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Newswalk: Safe at Home — Really?; Mobile Wallets; and the Latest Pastime, Media Lynchings

Lying with statistics — Still as popular as ever Our experts are smarter than your expe...

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Newswalk: Brain Drain; “Forward!”; and PC Journalism

"Brain and brain! What is 'brain'?" Can it be that everybody's brain is hardwired for pol...

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Newswalk: The Downtrodden 99 Percent, The Legendary Prophet, and The Religion That Justifies Anything

"99 Percenters" — Really? Things seldom are what they seem. Take, for instance, the Occ...

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The Existentialist James Bond — More Than You Might Want to Know about Double-O Seven

It was bound to happen: After nearly two dozen escapist screen adventures, the producers o...

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Bad Ideas Are Still Having Bad Consequences — Some Background to the Norway Massacre

It helps to know what motivates a mass murderer — in this case, it's the philosophy that...

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Why Bad Ideas in Academia Never Seem to Go Away

The California Association of Scholars, affiliated with the National Association of Schola...

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Newswalk: Canada Goes Cashless; Pay Up or the IRS Will Confiscate Your Passport; Administration Czar Approves of Government “Nudging”

Filthy Lucre There seems to be an informal push afoot to do away with cash money. Canada ...

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An Update on “Creeping Sharia” in the United Kingdom

. . . from Paul Weston of the British Freedom Party: Video: 38 minutes Must Islam alwa...

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Should the Government Tell Us What to Do with Our Lives?

John Stossel has made the libertarian case for personal freedom, even the freedom to do dr...

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Chain of Command

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Let’s Eliminate the Income Tax! All in Favor . . .

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-d...

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One Brave Thing

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The Revolution Hardly Anybody Noticed — Hope and Change and the Stealth Transformation of America

A funny thing happened on the way to Marx's fundamental transformation of the social struc...

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Newswalk: Terrorizing Children; Courtly Wisdom from Jefferson; Squirrely Activists; More Contemporary Madness

Verging on Child Abuse In many ways, the worst aspect of environmentalism is why Greens no...

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Huxley on “Propaganda in a Democratic Society”

When men do what is right in their own eyes without a sense of accountability, they can fa...

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Boeing, Boeing, Boeing — or, Why Isn’t Atlas Shrugging?

So-called "crony capitalism" (Big Business + Big Government) isn't merely a threat to the ...

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When Being Wrong Isn’t As Bad As Being Unfashionable

Some cultural pathologies enlarge to fill an ethical vacuum: Despite the pose of the heroi...

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The Latest from Detroit

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Tocqueville Admires Americans’ Self-interest and Civic Awareness

. . . but he also anticipates the fault lines that could be our undoing (especially note [...

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One Instance Where the Government Can Keep a Secret

"Good afternoon, chefie, I am the census taker." "Well, you got me at a busy time." "Oh,...

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The Possible and the Impossible — C. S. Lewis on God’s Omnipotence

"Omnipotence means ‘power to do all, or everything’. And we are told in Scripture that...

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The Upset Milk Jug — C. S. Lewis on the Explanatory Limitations of Accidents

"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of ...

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Wanted Dead or Alive: Opinions About Why We Shouldn’t Believe in Christ’s Resurrection — and One Dissent

These were randomly chosen from a Google search: (1) "We have clear evidence that Christi...

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Top of the World, Ma!

This is truly amazing to watch: a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of Mount Everest....

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Former President Renews Street Cred with Credulous Liberals

James Earl Carter, Jr., the 39th president, granted an interview to the Huffington Post re...