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Another BIG Problem with Piketty’s Approach: India

This analysis is from a very insightful analyst, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and it deals with the impact of free-market reforms on Dalit people, who have suffered at the very bottom…

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Populist anti-libertarian politics rising

“The rise of the illiberal international is only just beginning. So is the long and arduous fight against it.” http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/10/andrej_babis_the_czech_republic_has_a_trump_of_its_own.html

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The Case for Football

I don’t follow football or other sports, but this is a really fine essay. It’s even numerate and full of sound statistical inferences. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/what-liberals-get-wrong-about-football.html

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An Insidious Threat to Liberty: Right-Wing Collectivism

For anyone who still believes that elements of the pro-Trump American Right were not advancing “white nationalists” — and being infiltrated by them, read this. You may feel like you…

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Gun Control and Magic

When you discover there is no Santa Clause. (It turns out that Mom and Dad worked hard to earn money for presents…and food and a home and everything else.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html

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The Demonization of Soros

This essay in the Financial Times is spot on. Well put. I do not always agree with him and frequently robustly disagree, but the global assault on him by authoritarian…

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