There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71
Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the...
Don't you get tired of seeing so many non-conformists with the same non-conformist look?
Epithets like fascist and imperialist stooge became common currency, along with unbridled expressions of tribal chauvinism.
Everyone may be called comrade, but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. Fortunemagazine{115}
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerl...
It is a classic example of arguing against a caricature instead of confronting the argument actually made. While
Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland.
Like mismatched minority students, mismatched minority faculty have sought refuge in non-intellectual pursuits, such as community activities and campus political activism, in denunciations of standard...
Moreover, even at elite colleges, the personnel attracted to college admissions are seldom themselves part of the intellectual elite. Yet their job is to select students unlike themselves, to be taugh...
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age...
People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for the prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the rel...
Piketty’s crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is suppos...
The United States as a whole is larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion.
The government is indeed an institution, but the market is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his o...
The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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