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Does Money Buy Elections? When Billionaires Court Voters [Good Life series]

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Another election looms, and the question on everyone’s mind is: Will the big donors get their money’s worth? Cynicism about money in politics is a healthy response to our long history of cronyism. When $700 billion in bailout funds were distributed during the 2008 crisis, politically-connected financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs received the lion’s […]

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Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina [Spanish translation]

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Por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “Comparing North and Latin American Economic Performance”, originally published in English at EveryJoe and in Portuguese at Libertarianismo.] Todos queremos que la gente logre vivir en forma adecuada, especialmente las personas pobres que están luchando por ello. Y si somos ambiciosos, queremos además que la gente pueda vivir

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Campus sex and the anti-sexiness of the new authoritarians [Good Life series]

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Rape is among the most horrific of crimes. Sex should be a fun and beautiful thing — but rape takes that most personal of experiences and turns it into a degradation. There is moderately good news about the number of rapes in the USA. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rape rate has

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Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. “A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” “Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody

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Conservatives against Free-market Capitalism [Good Life series]

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After beating up on some “left” icons (here, here, and here, for example), it’s time to give some grief to the “right.” American political vocabulary tends to sort people into liberals on the left and conservatives on the right. All are big-tent labels, and we argue continuously about how to place libertarians, progressives, socialists, theocrats,

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Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur — transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is Professor Terry Noel, who teaches Entrepreneurship and Management at Illinois State, here today at Rockford College speaking on the theme of the virtuous entrepreneur. Interesting title, but your broader context

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The Love Canal Environmental Disaster — Four Decades Later [Good Life series]

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First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated, and suffered large losses of property value. Now

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