Democracy rewards those who lust for power.
The incentives politicians face reward the concentration and consolidation of power.
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Learn More...Pinker claims — but fails to prove — that early states significantly increased human welfare by reducing the rate of war death.
Learn More...One of the most important things we can do is really explain and understand how markets, not government intervention, are our best hope for an orderly and prosperous society.
Learn More...No, but he should have been.
Learn More...To answer this question we must first learn the distinction between contemporary conceptions of freedom and “The Freedom of the Ancients.”
Learn More...Editor’s note: This blog post contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault. Reader’s discretion is advised. I lived in Erlangen, Germany for much of 2009, getting around on a bicycle. After the big April beer festival, the “Bergkirchweih,” my lock was cut and my bike was thrown down a hill and set on fire (it […]
Learn More...Wing-walking was the practice of getting out of the cockpit of a biplane (while someone else was flying the thing) and staggering along the wing holding onto struts or wires. It was a thrill show for onlookers at air shows and barnstorming events in the 1920s and 1930s in the U.S. But for the wing-walker […]
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