Want to learn how the economy really works? Don’t go into academia. Get a job. I spent six years of school filling my head with fancy theories and complicated mathematics, practiced under assumptions that often don’t work in the real world. I earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics, but where I...
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April 1, 2009June 20, 2022Polemics & Exchanges
On Lincoln Herds
Abraham Lincoln is thrashed in a series of articles in the February issue of Chronicles (“The Legacy of Lincoln”) as a man of low morality and character who took his actions for the worst of reasons—e.g., to usher in an era of kleptocratic state capitalism; to bring an assembly of free state republics into a...
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April 1, 2009June 20, 2022News
A New Deal—April 2009
PERSPECTIVE Dead Romans and Live Americans by Thomas Fleming VIEWS
