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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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“Economic Nationalism” = “Special Interests”

Economic Nationalism is just a front for Special Interests

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TrumPutin: Creating Divisions

The key is that the Kremlin’s ads were promoting both sides of very divisive issues. Like Trump, they seek to divide and crash civil societies, setting groups against groups, fanning…

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Illiberal Populism on the March

  My interview on populism vs. (classical) liberalism in the French magazine Contrepoints: https://www.contrepoints.org/2017/09/20/298869-interview-de-tom-g-palmer-face-populisme-rationalite-liberaux

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The Cold Evil of the Alt-Right

The coldly evil vision of the Alt-Right. “We will have a Europe, in 2050, where the bank notes have Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great. And Hitler will be…

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