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Stranded Along the Road to Freedom

Alexis Hamilton | August 30, 2012 | Society

This weekend handed me a few lessons about the nature of free enterprise and cars, though I still have little knowledge of the more mysterious inner workings of either. Early Sunday morning, I guided my Honda Civic to a stop after a slit punctured into the tire...

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Alexis Hamilton

Alexis Hamilton is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and The University of Georgia School of Law.

Was Robin Hood a Just Character?

Kurt Jaros | August 23, 2012 | Society

Recently President Obama said that Mitt Romney’s tax plan is “like Robin Hood in reverse—it’s Romney-hood.” Robin Hood’s motto is to steal from the rich to give to the poor. Let’s think about this analytically and see if Obama’s...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

Separation of School and State

Isaac Morehouse | August 16, 2012 | Society

While reading Peter Boettke’s wonderful new book “Living Economics,” I was reminded by Boettke of an interesting disagreement between Scottish Enlightenment figures Adam Smith and David Hume. Both Smith and Hume used economic thinking to understand a...

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Isaac Morehouse

Isaac Morehouse is a gifts officer at the Institute for Humane Studies where he helps raise support for the Institute’s programs

For the Love of Country: Why We Should Tax Olympic Medalists

Alexis Hamilton | August 9, 2012 | Society

While the Olympics have injected much excitement into the dwindling days of our summers, many media outlets have given significant coverage to what some might see as the most unexciting aspect of these international games: taxes. Politicians from both parties,...

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Alexis Hamilton

Alexis Hamilton is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and The University of Georgia School of Law.

Discipline, Capitalism and Cookie Jars

Faith and Public Life | August 3, 2012 | Society

It doesn’t take a behavioral psychologist to understand the significance of a cookie jar to a child. Out there. On the counter. In plain sight and just within reach. The jar represents much more than a vessel of baked goods. The cookie jar is a test of moral and...

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Charles Murray and the Virtue of Industriousness

Joseph Sunde | July 20, 2012 | Society

I have already provided some thoughts on Charles Murray’s new book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,” related to the broader implications of his argument that our country is experiencing an “inequality of human...

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Joseph Sunde is an associate editor and writer for the Acton Institute.