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Homeschooled kids are the future of liberty
(Forbes) The modern homeschool movement comes largely by Christians aghast over an academic establishment overrun by progressives. Schools long ago became laboratories for instilling statism and distilling politically correct groupthink….
The future of education is now
(Forbes) The Khan Academy, which features 3,400 short instructional videos along with interactive quizzes and tools for teachers to chart student progress, is a nonprofit, boasting a mission of “a…
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What if money didn’t matter?
How do you like to spend your life? What do you desire? what if money didn’t matter? What if money was no object? Alan Watts explores the possibilities. Put frankly…
The changing middle
(Cafe Hayek) This fascinating collection of charts from the Tax Foundation includes these two charts that show how much demographics have changed and how difficult it is to draw conclusions over…
A medical system on life support
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? American healthcare costs…
Food waste a growing concern
(TED) Western countries waste up to half of their food. This is an injustice Tristram Stuart has dedicated his career to fixing. In his newest book, Waste: Uncovering the Global…
- 2007-08 Crisis
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The irony of choice
(Mark Steyn) So this is America’s best and brightest – or, at any rate, most expensively credentialed. Sandra Fluke has been blessed with a quarter-million dollars of elite education, and,…
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The (il)logic of political rhetoric
President Obama’s speech on Friday has caused a stir. In a way similar to Elizabeth Warren’s provocative speech, Obama announced that no man is an island. And, similar to the…
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Are we advancing technologically? Economically?
PETER THIEL: But I think that when you look at this question of how much technological progress has been happening, we get into all these complicated measurement issues. The one…
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What labor statistics say about our economy
Most attuned to the mumbo jumbo disseminated from Washington will recognize the patent unreliability of statistics. And most will not take at face value reports on inflation, employment, or other…
The future of education
TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library…
Consumerism and consolidation
Recently, this image has been presented by a Facebook group called Exposing the Truth with the title “The Illusion of Choice”. The assumption is that these companies have conspired to…
Are law and order possible without government?
Part One of a series of films exploring a society where there is law and order, but no government. This part introduces the definitions of law and government, illustrating the…
Traditional as the new radical
Shannon Hayes writes and works with her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in upstate New York. She is the author of Radical Homemakers, The Farmer and the Grill and…
IRS to institute licensing for tax preparation?
For more visit http://www.ij.org/IRS Congress never gave the IRS the authority to license tax preparers, and the IRS can’t give itself that power. But last year the IRS imposed a…
Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
(Washington Times) The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a…
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- Autarchy
- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
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- Competition
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Distributism
- Division of Labor
- Ecology
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Game Theory
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Legal Theory
- National Debt
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Poverty
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Simplicity
- Solutions
- Specialism
- Systems Theory
- Trade
- Wealth
- Zero-sum
Signs of a new de-urbanization?
After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, a great de-urbanization took place when city dwellers realized that the centralized system was unreliable and even dangerous. Smaller,…
Do-it-yourself education
We think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of time at kitchen tables in the countryside. And it’s true that most homeschooling parents do so for…
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- Ecology
- Economic Policy
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- Frontier Thesis
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The inefficiency of home-grown food
Recently, two members of congress have introduced legislation which is aimed at lowering carbon output by encouraging local food production and distribution. There are a number of things wrong with…