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Misrepresenting the Facts, History of Free Trade
Dominic Pino of National Review Online examines an ongoing debate about the benefits of free trade. Law & Liberty has been hosting a forum on trade. The first entry was…
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Education
Martin Center’s Leef Explores Progressivism in American Law Schools
George Leef of the Martin Center documents the negative role of progressivism within law schools across the country. Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals…
Education
Martin Center column emphasizes importance of classics
Shannon Watkins writes for the Martin Center about the essential nature of classics education. Countless students begin and graduate from college with an impoverished humanities education, a reality that should…
Health Care
Additional supply-side health care reforms needed
John Goodman writes for the Independent Institute about the need for additional reforms that affect health care’s supply side. This year will be the last in which uninsured Americans are…
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I enjoyed the Independent Institute’s “Gov Love” vignettes today. I did because I agree big government is, personified, a lying, overbearing jerk. I didn’t because the fact aggravates me many…
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Armentano on Economic Ignorance
Economist Dominick T. Armentano has posted a spirited commentary on the Independent Institute’s website entitled “Economic Ignorance, on the Left and Right“: As someone who taught college economics for 30 years, I assert that…
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Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and Obama Supporter Joins “Denier” Camp
View in your browser. 1. Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and Obama Supporter Joins "Denier" Camp Dr. Ivar Giaever, 1973 Nobel Prize winner in the field of Physics and an…
Law & Public Safety
Celebrating Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary
As the John Locke Foundation prepares to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta with a June 25 commemoration, you might appreciate some thoughts about “the great charter” from the…
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Attack ads play upon the erroneous belief that more education spending means better education
Writing on Independent Institute’s blog The Beacon, Vicky Alger observes that misleading ads are playing a big role in some elections, including our own Senate race. These ads “work” with…
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The “Obamacare of education”
What is? Common Core, naturally — a massive federal regulatory intrusion that will have huge costs and create long-run problems. So argues Vicky Alger of the Independent Institute here.
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The “War on Poverty” wasn’t just a failure
We’re celebrating, although that’s hardly the right word for it, the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty.” The statist defenders of that war say that while poverty is still…
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FDR didn’t end the Depression and neither did WWII
That’s the argument of this new paper published by the Independent Institute. Hat tip: Frank Stephenson