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March 15, 2010

He Never Read von Mises

Mitchell Langbert

Communist countries like Russia have developed with extraordinary speed in the past decades entirely by means of public enterprise.  In fact, by our index of the rate of economic growth, i.e.,......

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March 15, 2010

Libel Tourism En Vacances

Peter Wood

A French court puts an American editor on trial over a German book review that offended an Israeli scholar. Hmm...

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March 15, 2010

Obama Loans, Who Collects? The Not-so-Hidden Dangers of Federal Direct Student Lending

Peter Wood

Peter Wood paints a picture of what federal control of higher education could look like in practice.

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March 15, 2010

Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part II

George Seaver

Enlightenment thinkers concluded that the balance of power can recover its stability but that the loss of public virtue occurs slowly and is not recoverable.

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March 12, 2010

Moral Maturity or Rigid Ideology?

Mitchell Langbert

In his book Moral Development: Advances in Research and Theory (NY: Praeger, 1986) James Rest of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues describe their work on "moral maturity" using the......

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