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Venezuela - How the Bolivarian Revolution Hurts the Poor
When poor, desperate and uneducated peasants or slum dwellers fall for authoritarian populists like Hugo Chavez, it’s a tragedy, because they have to pay a terrible price for it. But when Wester… more →
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Venezuela - How the Bolivarian Revolution Hurts the Poor
michaeloholmes wrote 1 week ago: When poor, desperate and uneducated peasants or slum dwellers fall for authoritarian populists like … more →
Power to the Parents!
michaeloholmes wrote 2 weeks ago: Milton and Rose Friedman founded the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice to fight a public sc … more →
Afghanistan - Change We Can Believe In?
michaeloholmes wrote 3 weeks ago: After decades of suffering under brutal Soviet occupation and no less brutal Taliban rule, the peopl … more →
How Property Rights Can Empower the World's Indigenous People
michaeloholmes wrote 1 month ago: Watch this impressive and uplifting documentary by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and the Insti … more →
How Dangerous Is Terrorism?
michaeloholmes wrote 1 month ago: Watch John Mueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, talk about his book Ove … more →
Progress and Setbacks: The Development of Central and Eastern Europe since the End of Communism
michaeloholmes wrote 1 month ago: There are so many myths and legends surrounding the collapse of communist totalitarianism, the nonvi … more →
Why All Western Governments Are Too Large
michaeloholmes wrote 2 months ago: When governments are too small, they aren’t able to secure our basic rights. When they are too … more →
Yes, We Can Stop Global Warming!
michaeloholmes wrote 2 months ago: But not the way most environmentalists want us to! Björn Lomborg, founder of the Copenhagen Consensu … more →
How to Ruin the Economy in 7 Steps
michaeloholmes wrote 2 months ago: Watch Swedish writer Johan Norberg talk about his very accesible new book, Financial Fiasco: How Ame … more →
Can the Whole World Become Democratic?
michaeloholmes wrote 3 months ago: Watch Larry Diamond, co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and founding co-e … more →
Suicide Bombers - Why do they hate us?
michaeloholmes wrote 3 months ago: Watch political scientist Robert Pape, author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terror … more →
Fighting Hunger in Africa
michaeloholmes wrote 4 months ago: Watch this short documentary by Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow of the Wall Street Journal about Howar … more →
What's the Future of Iran?
michaeloholmes wrote 4 months ago: I don’t know, nobody does. But Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is convinced that he is pretty close to … more →
There Is A Way To Lift People Out Of Poverty...
michaeloholmes wrote 5 months ago: …and there is only one way: you let them do it themselves! Watch Peruvian economist Hernando d … more →
How We Can Make Our World A Much, Much Better Place
michaeloholmes wrote 5 months ago: Watch economist Alex Tabarrok explain at the TED Talks why he believes that “the best is yet t … more →
Immoral and Ineffective: The International War on Drugs
michaeloholmes wrote 5 months ago: Watch Ted Galen Carpenter and Ian Vásquez of the Cato Institute explain why we should end the intern … more →
How Did The West Get Rich?
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michaeloholmes wrote 6 months ago: Watch economist William Bernstein talk at Google Talks about his fascinating and fact-filled book Th … more →
The GDR - Big Brother Is Watching You
michaeloholmes wrote 6 months ago: One of the most frightening and sadening realities in today’s Germany is how many people justi … more →
Biophobia
michaeloholmes wrote 6 months ago: Watch Steven Pinker speak about his book The Blank Slate – The Modern Denial of Human Nature, … more →
