The mean streets and the complete man
The modern hero.
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Capaldi and Lloyd’s *Liberty and Equality in Political Economy*
I reviewed Capaldi and Lloyd’s book for Law and Liberty. Here’s the Amazon link to the book itself: Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present. Related: Our CEE interview with Professor Capaldi for our Profiles in Liberty series.
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The Fully Human Creed
Kudos to Alfange for writing this, though I would like to see this generalized as a creed of human dignity and not merely an American one. An American’s Creed By Dean Alfange I do not choose to be a common man It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I
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Vaccination rates by country, update
As of April 23, 2021. Source. Vaccine effectiveness and country of origin.
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The Bakke affirmative action case
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race
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The anti-Romantics — Samuel Beckett edition
The absurdist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. He’s most famous for Waiting for Godot (a play in which pretty much nothing happens in the first act, only to be repeated in the second), was also the author of a novel entitled Molloy. Here is the main character, Molloy, reminiscing
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Online trolls’ rhetoric, Sartre’s anticipation
Anti-Semites, postmodernists, and alt-rightists as peas in a pod.
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Chauvin verdict, Gun control, Covid-19 successes
On this week’s Current Events program with Kelley and Salsman, hosted by Oddino.
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