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Stephen Mauzy
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October 18, 2014
The Left Avows Its Ungodly Love of FilthIn California, of all places, with a dismaying but unsurprising new law.
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October 1, 2014
When a Royal Invalid Comes to TownWhen the royal invalids come to town, hundreds of thousands of individuals are inconvenienced; frustration rises, and time and money are lost.
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August 28, 2013
The Case against School VouchersGovernment schools are rotten, and so is the "market" remedy.
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August 26, 2012
Why Free MarketsThere is simply no such thing as inefficiency or failure in a free market. It is the best political economy imaginable by thinking adults.
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August 18, 2012
Too Much Ado about ChinaLike most fears propagated by political opportunists, fears over China are overwrought and overdone.
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August 7, 2012
Obama's Tech FallacyPresident Obama embraces a philosophy that is the enemy of technological progress.
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July 30, 2012
The Under-Appreciated Casualties of Aurora, ColoradoThe truth is the most prominent of these casualties.
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May 10, 2012
A Nation of Sorry Apologists"I'm sorry" is one of the sorrier terms in the English language.
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May 5, 2012
Aggregates and Averages, Individuality and InterventionistsThrow out a number purported to represent a population, and if that number points to unconscionable inequity or a trumped up free-market defect, the interventionist is already three-fourths on his way to guiding the economy toward his vision.
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May 4, 2011
The Uniform Reaction to a Thug's DeathIt was all a little off-putting, really. Not so much Osama bin Laden's death, but the reaction to it. Of course, we saw the rote recital of "closure" coming a mile a way.
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April 13, 2011
Time for the Rich to Shut Up on TaxesThere is a hypocrisy, if not psychosis, at work in the minds of the tax-demanding rich.
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April 8, 2011
Would Federal Default Be So Bad?Default at this juncture is a faint possibility. But would it be so terrible if default were probable, even likely?
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March 29, 2011
An Unnatural Love AffairIf one anthropomorphizes a rock, one is a nut job. If one anthropomorphizes billions of rocks, one is an environmentalist.
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February 26, 2011
Piracy is Tragedy of the CommonsSomali piracy is unlikely to vanish anytime soon. To the contrary, it will likely intensify before it abates.
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February 24, 2011
Pensioner's DilemmaThe right to a leisurely retirement has been imprinted on at least five generations of Americans, which is why so few consider whether it is practical or even desirable.
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February 13, 2011
Caring, Consequences, and the CommonwealFew terms are more sentimentalized than "I care."
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December 12, 2010
The Ramsayization of SocietyGordon Ramsay isn't really to blame; he's only the apotheosis in the profusion of the most socially accepted, if not most entertaining, emotion -- anger.
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November 6, 2010
Blinded By Natural ScienceFor at least the past hundred years, economists have attempted to forge an alliance with the natural sciences.
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October 26, 2010
Yes, We Have InflationWe have both monetary inflation and asset-price inflation at this juncture. Consumer-price inflation is in the waiting room.