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Four Senate seats, two open governorships, and eight constitutional amendments are on the ballot across the South on November 3. Several of the region's biggest decisions were made in May, before any of them were printed.
For fourteen years, from 1920 to 1934, Ludwig von Mises held a seminar in his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. He wasn’t a salaried professor. The University of Vienna let him lecture without pay, and his living came […]
On November 1, 1966, All Saints’ Day, the National Football League awarded its sixteenth franchise to New Orleans. The timing wasn’t a coincidence of the calendar. A few weeks earlier Congress had passed a law exempting the merger of the […]
Robert Taber covered the Cuban revolution for CBS and went with Castro’s columns from the Sierra Maestra to Havana. The War of the Flea, published in 1965 as American troops were arriving in Viet Nam by the division, is his […]
When competence stops being scarce, who gets to hold the capability?
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Land is a little bit everyone's, and it still doesn't have to belong to the state.
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Self-government at the scale where people actually live: the town, the neighborhood, the watershed.
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