Arnold Kling’s insightful new book can help you understand your political opponents as basically reasonable, if wrong. It is a must-read for those who want to improve the quality of their discourse or subvert the political-industrial complex.
Be very afraid: the guy talking smack about your favorite cat photo is also voting for president.
The imaginary feminist and her counterpart, the imaginary misogynist, are frequent and detrimental third parties in discussions of gender and society. To elevate our discussion, we must minimize their influence in our thinking and interactions.
Progressives know that the American public will not support direct subsidies to individual workers harmed by immigration, so they use restrictions as a cynical half-measure to prevent the supposed harm from happening at all.
Conservatives, liberals, and libertarians have made common cause in the open government movement, each for different reasons. Libertarians believer that transparency will lead to limited government because the more people see the reality of their government, the more they will conclude that it’s too expensive and it does not work. That’s probably wrong.
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The perennial problem of the male-skewed gender ratio within the libertarian movement may not be as perplexing or as unique as it first appears. To understand why so few women identify as libertarian, we need to understand the social trade-offs that they face when publicly supporting any radical ideology. Fortunately, this is one problem that is probably solving itself.
