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Decades ago, F. A. Hayek warned that socialism was the Road to Serfdom. He explained not only why central planning was impossible but how the attempt destroys morality: planning leads to misery and increasing control, then totalitarianism, the corruption of truth, and finally even the ability to articulate it.  Today we are heading down a similar path, recast as the freeway toward “equity” and “justice.” No student should be forced to repay loans, no retiree should be deprived of free...

A new history examines how the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a more sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.

© press Republicans are unified despite what the media will tell you, Stefanik said House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) blasted her predecessor Rep. Liz Cheney for "looking backward" while vowing that the Republican Party is now looking forward. Elise declared GOP is united despite the media claiming otherwise. “Republicans are unified to expose radical agenda of Joe Biden and Speaker Pelosi," Stefanik said. "We want to focus every day on exposing the border crisis and...

Economist and social scientist Thorstein Veblen has been called one of America’s most original and creative thinkers. His highly acclaimed treatise “The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions” (1899) introduced the term “conspicuous consumption.” Veblen’s body of work remains seminal reading in understanding the modern consumer society and criticisms of capitalism. Thorstein Bunde Veblen was born on July 30, 1857, in Cato Township, Manitowoc...

University of Amsterdam This month, the UvA and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies will reflect on the 20th anniversary of the study and research programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands. What once began with three students has developed into a unique and international programme that attracts students and researchers from all over the world. Red Terror Martyrs’ Memorial Museum, Ethiopia (Photo: Adam Jones) April 2021 marks precisely 20 years since th...

Antiwar.com Original The False Promise of Universal National Serviceby Doug Bandow Posted on War fires the imagination, especially of those who never suffered its horrors. Washington, D.C.’s faux heroes find nothing so courageous as sending other people off to fight and die in one grand cause or another. Of course, some professionals glory in death and gore, such as World War II’s Gen. George S. Patton. In his infamous speech to the Third Army he declared: "Men, all this stuff you hear abo...

Bellamy, socialism and utopia  Winter 1987-88 issue of the  World Socialist For as long as there has been human oppression there have been dreams of the oppressed. Oppressed people have not usually had access to the means of recording their dreams, so too many of them have been lost. Nor have they had the power to communicate their dreams as widely as the powerful have been free to spread theirs, so all too often such visions of what could be have been relegated to an area outside of “serio...

To our readers, Maine Historical Society continues topical bicentennial series Jan 01, 2021 Maine Historical Society is relaunching its Bicentennial public programming with a new virtual series, Maine at 200, through March 2021. The series will feature live conversations and panels on topical issues with prominent speakers, historians and authors, including Earle Shettleworth Jr., Colin Woodard, and Lise Pelletier. Maine at 200, which is broadcast via Zoom, will explore how Maine became a stat...

Summer School Maymester Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity Considers texts in a comparative ethnic/race studies framework and examines how these texts explore historical and contemporary connections between groups of people in the United States and the Americas. Honors version available   English Composition and Rhetoric This college-level course focuses on written and oral argumentation, composition, research, information literacy, and rhetorical analysis. The course introduces stu...

Aftermath hurricane maria affecting puerto rico and saying they are doing that in order to make him look bad. this coming at a time when the resource of the federal government are poised to deal with florence as its bearing down and initial effects are starting to hit where you are ali. the president looking backward and upset about the political storm surrounding hurricane march ray. now the issue is there are roughly 3,000 deaths associated with hurricane maria. those are not the deaths that t...