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How Commerce Expands Culture

  • by Andrea Castillo
  • May 7, 2013

There is no reason to think that the state will be a responsible steward of our culture. Our cultural history gives us every reason to believe that capitalism will continue to provide the diversity and quality of forms that we have come to take for granted.

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Europe

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Le stasis c’est moi

  • by Jerry Brito
  • February 21, 2013

European mores are incompatible with the digital era and will render the continent an Internet backwater,

[Miss Genevieve Ebbets, youngest daughter of Charley Ebbets, throws first ball at opening of Ebbets Field (baseball)] (LOC)

Gender and Ideology

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Why Most Women Don’t Want to be Libertarians (Yet)

  • by Andrea Castillo
  • January 29, 2013

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.

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