Your Enemies Are Not Monsters: An Olive Branch Across the Divide

Certain highs given by alcohol, laughing gas, huffing paint and the like, give a sense of euphoria by depriving the brain of oxygen. You can get a similar high by climbing a mountain, where the air gets thinner. And there is no mountain so high, where the thin air fills one with such sweet euphoria, as the moral high ground. This spot of superiority—where you gaze down at your enemies, whom you imagine as ants, pests, and vermin—fills your breast with a sense of certainty: I am right, and they are terrible. Such was the tone of the article, “I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should...

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Does Ignorance of Economics Breed Poverty?

Lopsided Brains In 2013 Adam Grant published an article titled “Does Studying Economics Breed Greed?” While his evidence is compelling and his solution is excellent, his solution is only half a solution, missing a vital component that could benefit all of society. We will begin with his solution, because in identifying the missing half, the whole will be illuminated. Grant’s solution focused on helping economics students become fully human, instead of “critters with lopsided brains, icy hearts, and shrunken souls.” I am fortunate to teach in precisely that environment. My economics students...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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