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When people debate the character of a public figure, a standard tactic is to find a single “unforgivable” action – something so damning that there is no need to examine further evidence. I call this the Unforgivable Heuristic. And while this heuristic has its place, we greatly overuse it: The main problem with the signaling […]
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The U.S. government is probably relieved it can now blame the results of some of its past crimes and bungling — such as inflation and other economic disasters — on the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and most people will believe it. In fact, the same is likely true of every government in the world.
A few of my friends are convinced that woke activists plan on establishing a woke dictatorship. Overall, I deem this is paranoid hyperbole. Every now and then, however, I read a woke activist, and I briefly wonder if my paranoid, hyperbolic friends are right.
Over our own funeral pyres we pray to, Zoroaster, Yet we play with tin soldiers in the War Room, Making believe that no one dies
To judge by what Congress is up to these days, one would think that it wants to reward Israel for its relentless confiscation of Palestinian land and continued ethnic cleansing.
Ludwig von Mises has repeatedly emphasized that consistently implemented interventionism (also known as the “third way”) must lead to socialism, while consistently implemented socialism must lead to hunger and poverty for all.
The august deliberative body, in an unusual collective seizure of wisdom, voted to stop demanding that everyone move their clocks forward one hour each spring, and back one hour each fall, by making “Daylight Saving Time” permanent as of November 2023.
To quote the classic: “I’m not on anyone’s side because nobody’s on my side.” Contrary to appearances, this is a statement that does not mean haughtiness or apathy, but steadfastness and vigilance.
I do consider Putin to be the worst among a terrible group right now. He’s the last person who had the chance to do the right thing but chose to do the wrong thing instead. I know, however, he didn’t start committing his latest evil act on a whim. He was led — or possibly shoved — down a bad path by decades of unethical acts by other governments. You don’t get excused for committing evil even if you were provoked, though.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, as the US approaches — according to the official statistics — 80 million confirmed cases and a million deaths, most Americans seem to finally understand that America’s “public health” institutions were the opposite of helpful in combating the disease. US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has a solution: Triple the number of such institutions at the top.