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Notes for the Beginning of: What to Do?

This is how I explain what has happened to myself. Nobody should begin without warning.  So we ought jot down some initial observations that provide a starting point for what follows.  Some will become highly relevant.  Others will fade as we dig deeper into our subject and discover that they were not germane to the […]

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Back in the Game: It’s Silly Season

It’s silly season.  The non-stop election cycle here in America is moving into its next phase.  Money is pouring in.  Most people are trying to avoid paying attention.  True partisans are plotting how their preferred candidate can get to 270 — the magical number of votes in the Electoral College America’s antiquated and not at […]

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Leftists are not “anti-market”

I have been reminded by Tyler Cowen of Bryan Caplan’s simplistic theory of left and right.  It’s short and to the point.  Leftists are, he says, “anti-market”. He is wrong. Leftists are anti-market obsession.  They are anti-market fanaticism.  They are anti-market worship.  Specifically, they are opposed to the form of idealization used to articulate “the […]

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