Edifice of Trust
By Victor C. Bolles
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The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today's current events from the perspective of America's Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as espoused by John Locke and economic freedom as described by Adam Smith, the host, Victor Bolles, provides listeners a path toward understanding current events from these timeless principles. Many Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, the podcast tries to point out a new course that everyone can support.
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I Hate It when Trump's Right
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Look in the Mirror
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Conflation Nation
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Let's Think about the Future
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Mamdani Derangement Syndrome
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Unfinished Revolution
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Affordability Agenda
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Explain This
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Darkness before Dawn
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Hairbrained
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Vertical War in America
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Unaffordable Abundance
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Faux Outrage
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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A Living Document
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Homo Duplex
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Three Kevins
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The Difference between Capitalism and Socialism
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Who Needs Allies?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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In the Eye of the Storm
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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You Are Not Entitled to Anything
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The First Step toward a Post-Trump World
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May 31, 2025 |
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The Royal Treatment
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May 23, 2025 |
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Critical Elements for a Post-Trump World
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May 15, 2025 |
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Preparing for a Post-Trump World
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May 01, 2025 |
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Just Another Powerful Country
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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You Have Reason to be Yippy
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Another Reason
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Unintended (but not Unexpected) Consequences
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Presumptuousness of Academia
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Fentanomics
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Antifragile Man
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Why???
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The New Epithet
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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And So It Begins
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Who Is Ripping Off Whom?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The World Is Unfair - Part 2
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The Wortld Is Unfair
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Differentiation of Oligarchs
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Reboot America
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Urgent Priorities 2025
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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You Are the Collateral Damage
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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A Caution on Efficiency
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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I'm Beginning to Get It
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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The Consequence of Ideological Purity
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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MAGAnanimous
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Persistence of Elites
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Who Should Run Our Economy?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Inevitable Progression of Inequality
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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What Would Really Make America Great Again?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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The New Luddites
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Inflation is Not Done with Us
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Democracy Diet
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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My Take of the So-called Debate
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The So-called Presidential Debate
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Taxes Taxes and More Taxes
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Strategic Voting
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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The Solution to Price Gouging
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Fool Me Thrice
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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What the Heck is National Conservatism?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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What is Trumpism without Trump?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Why Does Trump Lie?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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A Speech of Consequence
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Means and Ends
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Who Else Is There?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Grate Debate Update
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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The Grate Debate
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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A Fox in the Henhouse
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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He Must be Guilty of Something
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May 27, 2024 |
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I Applaud Civil Disobedience - As Long as it is Civil
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May 13, 2024 |
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Israel is not the Target
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Specter of Nationalism
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Woke Pathology
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Why Slavery?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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They Just Don't Get It
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Our Only Hope
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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NO LABELS' Fatal Flaw
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Ameriphobia
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Understanding Diversity
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Can DEI Be Saved?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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An Age of Agency
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Urgent Priorities 2024
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Mislabeled
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Attraction of Victimhood
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Dr. - not Mr. - Spock
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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War in the Levant
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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The Slippery Slope of Fairness
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Making Sense of Irrational War
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Shared Values and Common Goals Part One
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Deficit of Hope
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Numbers Guy
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Peak China?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Our Precarious Liberty
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Surviving in a Multipolar World
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Ukraine Model
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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This Is How They Think
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Whither Europe?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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RINOS and DINOS
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The Wrong Way to Make Law
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Difference between Lying and Delusion
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Postmodern Prehistory
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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War of Attrition
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May 22, 2023 |
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Vivek Who???
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May 08, 2023 |
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A Postmodern Future
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Ideological Justice
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Explaining John Wayne
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Perp Walk
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Two Decades
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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The Fed that Should Be
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Democracy is not a Verb
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Color Blurred Society
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The Junzi Way
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Can Artificial Intelligence Cure Healthcare?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Non-Trivial Pursuits
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Urgent Priorities 2023
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Wakanda Dreamin'
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The Real Message of Welfare
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Conservatism is not Enough
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Don't Twerk on My Parade
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Toxic Magic and the Red Ripple
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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The War on Profit
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The Cult of Woke
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Wake Up! Dems
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Social Justrice is Incompatible with Democracy
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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The Pension Pit
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The Difference between Democracy and Liberty
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Reward Work Not Wealth
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Semi-What?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Energy Policy! What's That?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Not a Band-Aid
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Duty of Citizens
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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How to Destroy the Republican Party
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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The Deficit Reduction Dance
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Gasolina Barata
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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When Face Value is Two Faced
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Weasel Words
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Chaos in the Culture Wars
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Capitulation (or not)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Pin Factory and Social Justice
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Open Letter to Sen. John Cornyn
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Our Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy
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May 25, 2022 |
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More on the High Cost of Free Speech
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May 20, 2022 |
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The Continual High Cost of Free Speech
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May 17, 2022 |
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Abortion - A 23rd Century Perspective
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May 10, 2022 |
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Joe Biden Didn't Cause Our Inflation
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Slanted Society
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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What Happened to the Party of JFK?
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Vertical War
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Putin Has Done Us a Favor
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Backfire
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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My Primary Predicament
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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In Vlad's Shoes
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Algorithm of Decline
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The Real RINO
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Plessy v. Progressives
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Urgent Priorities
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Thanks for Nothing, Joe
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Ethical Gymnastics
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Political Petroleum Reserve
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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The 0.1% Solution
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The End of Wokeism
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Corporate Taxes in the Real World
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Modern Monetary Nonsense
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Is a Better Life Worth Slower Growth?
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Cautiously Optimistic
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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The Future of Tennis (and the World)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Closing the Real Achievement Gap
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Systemic Enlightenment
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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The End of Enlightenment
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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The Piketty Solution
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Desperation
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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It's Not Just Chicago
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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My Fourth
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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The Purpose of Sports
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Taxing Picasso
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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The Limits of Diplomacy
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Between Scylla & Charybdis
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Lifestyle or Liberty
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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I Don't Want to be an Antiracist
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May 18, 2021 |
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Harry, Sally and Jeff
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May 05, 2021 |
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Who Built This Country, Joe?
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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The Economic Cure
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Critical Race Conundrum
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Backwards Finance
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Duopoly of Division
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mass Hysteria
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Joe Said the N-word
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Stalking Systemic Racism
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Necessity of Integrity
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Old Black Men
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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I versus We
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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107 Aryan Spring
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Loser
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Incompetent Democracy
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Pandemic Messaging
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The Lesson of Juan Peron
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Progressive Blackmail
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Xi Jinping is not Louis XVI
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The People Have Spoken
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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99 Outlier Politics
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Constitutional Jenga
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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War Footing
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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What Happened?
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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A Piece of the Puzzle
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Tribal Warfare
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Snake Oil Remedy
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The November Dilemma
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Broken Windows Broken Lives
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Generational Change
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Progressive Myopia
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Socialism has no Future
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Thinking about Unalienable Rights
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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86 What's so Great about Equality?
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Karen and the Cancel Culture
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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84 The False Promise of Political Power
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Do Not Go Gently
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Facts Don't Matter
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Defund or Dismantle
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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80 Defining Moment?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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79 Righteous Mind Redux
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May 31, 2020 |
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Sublimation of the Evolutionary Trap
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May 25, 2020 |
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77 Robust Redundancies
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May 07, 2020 |
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Comorbidity Conundrum
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Seeking Relevance
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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It's Not the Economy, Stupid!
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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73 The Cost of the Cure
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Coronavirus Hurricane
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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71 The Baneful Foe
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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70 Socialism Suckers
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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69 Nature over Nurture
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Snowflakes
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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67 Golf and Governance
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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66 Unions Should Love Capitalism
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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65 The Merry-Go-Round of Victimhood
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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64 My Take on Giving Tuesday
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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63 Excessive Democracy
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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62 Actors and Reactors
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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61 From the Heart
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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61 From the Heart
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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60 Invisible Hand versus Iron Fist
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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59 The Exasperating Exercise of Folly
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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58 Commander's Intent
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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57 Xi's Dilemma
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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56 Kennan's Cable
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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55 Not Woke
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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54 Social Justice Basketball
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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53 The Trump Supremacy
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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52 The Hallmarks of Mercantilism
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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51 What is the American Dream?
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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50 Examining the Affluence Gap
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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49 Sapolsky et al vs Locke et al
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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48 The Dopamine of Justice
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Not JFK
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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Two Men Walk Down a Dark Street
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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The Politics of Glucocorticoids
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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A Nordic Fantasy
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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43 Weaponizing Trade
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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42 Science is just Science
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May 30, 2019 |
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41 Saving Chickpeas
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May 24, 2019 |
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Henry's Silver Coins
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May 16, 2019 |
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39 The Missing Element
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May 02, 2019 |
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38 How Not to Improve Democracy
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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There Are Reasons
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Desocialisting El Salvador
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Known Associates
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Run Joe Run
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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33 Cacophony
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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32 LG vs. T
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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31 The Civilized Things
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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30 Is Howard Schultz the Answer to Our Prayers?
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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29 Battle of Hearts (not Minds)
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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28 Breaking the Entitlement Addiction
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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27 Silly Season
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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26 From Behind to Nothing
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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25 Chinese Eyes
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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24 Gilets Jaunes
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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23 Well I Guess he IS Our Son of a Bitch
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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22 Circle the Wagons
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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21 The Natural Right to Vote
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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20 Lesson Unlearned
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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19 Wingnuts
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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18 Uncompromising Fairness
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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17 Our Son of a Bitch
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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10 Diversify or Else
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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9 Pension Prisoners
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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16 California's Revenge
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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8 Free Our Captive Public Schools
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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7 The Unfairness of Fairness
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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6 Capture and Human Nature
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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5 Freedom's Angel
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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4 On the Nature of Capture
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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15 Safety Net or Spider Web?
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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14 The rule of the Arbitrary
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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1 Building Blocks
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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13 Wonky on Civil Rights
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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12 The Reason for Reason
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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11 The Difference between Disloyalty and Treason
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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3 Building blocks - Part 3
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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2 Building Blocks Part 2
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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0 Introduction to the Edifice of Trust
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Sep 12, 2018 |