reason.com: Open Thread -- -- What’s on your mind? #liberty #news
mises.org: Plantation Ledgers and the Illusion of Capitalist Rationality -- -- The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, research shows that the plantations were anything but capitalist enterprises. #liberty #news
mises.org: Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals -- -- November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Wants Immigrants—Sometimes -- -- The president is alarming the MAGA faithful by saying he wants more high-skilled immigration. But that doesn’t mean he’s rethinking the rest of his nativism. #liberty #news
reason.com: Democrats Are Beating Trump on Affordability. Will He Keep Pretending Otherwise? -- -- Neither side, however, has a good plan to bring down prices. #liberty #news
mises.org: Yes, Heather Cox Richardson Is Economically Illiterate – And Proud of It -- -- History Professor Heather Cox Richardson has grown very wealthy using her writings to attack the creation of wealth itself. While her columns are popular, they also are filled with economic illiteracy. #liberty #news
mises.org: Neither God nor Man At Yale -- -- The liberal arts in higher education are in danger and many there are blaming (of course) free markets. However, by substituting progressive propaganda for higher learning, the leaders of liberal arts institutions sealed their own fate. #liberty #news
mises.org: Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance -- -- The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Meaning of Revolution -- -- The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist. #liberty #news
reason.com: A Senate-Approved Bill Would Ban the Hemp-Derived THC Products That Congress Legalized in 2018 -- -- The appropriations bill, which the House is considering, would wipe out an industry that offers alternatives to cannabis consumers in states that still prohibit recreational marijuana use. #liberty #news