Fossil fuels get a lot of slack these days. Outside of geographic hubs where mining, drilling, and oil refinery dominate local labor markets, working in the oil industry is hopelessly…
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(This piece is part two of a three-part series on Mound Bayou. Begin with the first and the second.) Mound Bayou came into the national spotlight following the grisly murder…
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Capitalism is a “DDoLL.” I’m saying it in a silly way, to make it easier to remember, but the fact is that capitalist societies rest on three principles of effectiveness.…
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The COVID-19 pandemic gave us, among other evils, the bizarre spectacle of bipartisan calls for protectionist measures. In 2020, as the world reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of key…
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The Biden administration has recently come out on the offensive against short-term “junk insurance” plans that they claim play consumers as “suckers,” asserting their the effort will lower health care…
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If we exclude misanthropes, most people today can – without excessive simplification – be divided into two distinct camps: the Awestruck and the Awws. The Awestruck are unceasingly amazed at…
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The terms “Oil Embargo” and “Energy Crisis” have been embedded in the nation’s history for a half-century. But that crisis was the result of government intervention, not market failure. Specifically,…
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When lockdowns were the order of the American day, we worried. The media highlighted only the worst predictions, and we did not know what would happen next. Whether transitioning from…
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While the latest “strong” US jobs report and “cooling” CPI inflation have been touted as promising, a closer look reveals more complexity, and many American families continue to bear the…
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On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Michael Munger, economist and professor of political economy at Duke University, to discuss the Classical Liberal diaspora. Diaspora refers…