Anyone who has seen the first Steve Jobs biopic (Pirates Of The Silicone Valley) remembers the scene where he and his garage company debuted at the 1977 San Francisco Computer Show and realized they were on their way to becoming the hit of a nascent...
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The European welfare state - a hidden accomplice of extremism
Following the terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Kenya in 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry commented that the fight against extremism and violence goes beyond simply identifying and removing specific terrorists from the streets, but depends on providing “economic opportunities to marginalized, at-risk youth.”[1] Cleared from …
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Brian Kaplan* I have just finished the unpublished collection Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of Gary Becker, edited by Tom Church, Chris Miller, and John Taylor. For me, the most striking part of the text is John Korhane’s on inequality: “The most mysterious thing is why left critics focus on the one percent in …
More »Guest Article: Libertarian Common Sense on Refugees
This article will not appeal to many libertarians. The reason is that in it I try to follow general moral principles on a subject for which society as a whole wants temporary immoral measures. Many libertarians, in my opinion, have succumbed to this general attitude in society, and unknowingly abandon, at least …
More »Is the transition over?
Today we mark 26 years since the fall of the communist regime and the start of the so-called transition. What is happening on this day – in short, due to the crumbling socio-economic system in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, the socialist economies can no longer live on artificial respiration and, driven by Gorbachev's perestroika, …
More »Position: Testing all students for drugs and dangerous "herbs"
To bTV News Today I accidentally came across your video material, where an unknown gentleman practiced on the topic of "Drugs" in an extremely clumsy way and even allowed himself to suggest "testing all students for drugs" under the stormy ovations of the host. I noted several main statements and points from the conversation with ...
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