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Harrison Searles
Fairfax, Virginia.
Master's student at George Mason University in economics, MA Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and alumnus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst; avid scribbler.
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Thoughts on the Minimum Wage
In The New York Times, Arindrajit Dube, a celebrated expert on the economics of the minimum wage, has commentated on the recent study from the University of Washington on the effects of Seattle’s increased minimum wage. In short, Mr. Dube argues that the study’s conclusion that there were big job... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2017 at Right Reason
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Robert Citino on Dunkirk
Robert M. Citino, one of the foremost German-military historians today, has an interview, "Why the Germans Blew It at Dunkirk,” at Bloombery View about Dunkirk, both the actual event and Christopher Nolan’s movie about said event. On the topic of the infamous Halt-Order, Mr. Citino says: Remember, Hitler's May 24... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2017 at Right Reason
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Our Lawless Police
Posted Jun 17, 2017 at Right Reason
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Open Immigration and Firearms: Equivalent Rights?
Posted Jun 5, 2017 at Right Reason
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Art on Saturday
Posted Jun 3, 2017 at Right Reason
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Pope Francis vs Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia
Posted Jun 2, 2017 at Right Reason
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Comparing Rome and China: The Influences of island-geography
Earlier this week, I had an email on Tyler Cowen's post on the question of why Chinese civilization has been so successful in establishing a centralized hegemony over a population around the same size featured on Marginal Revolution. In that post, Rome vs. China, I look at how geographic factors,... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2017 at Right Reason
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Remarks On France's Totalitarian Secularism
From The Economist's "Muslim attire: The state and the veil": France is different. The roots of French political secularism, known as laïcité, go back to the revolution of 1789 and to an anti-clerical campaign in the early 20th century. By 1904 some 10,000 religious schools had been shut; thousands of... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2017 at Right Reason
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Scène de Juillet 1830
Posted May 8, 2017 at Right Reason
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Some More Thoughts on Casuistry
Human beings free will. Although it is certainly marred by concupiscence and circumstances, free will provides the human species with the ability to choose their actions and to make judgments about what ends in life are worthwhile. Perhaps a better word than ‘free will’ might be autonomy. ‘Autonomy’ derives from... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2017 at Right Reason
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Some Thoughts About Casuistry and Healthcare Policy
One of the fundamental problems with talk about healthcare in politics today is casuistic: Commentators start with the hard cases and try to craft policy based on hard cases that pull at the heartstrings, rather than straightening out the easy cases of daily life first. Americans should be more concerned,... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2017 at Right Reason
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David Brooks writes about Western civilization
Over at The New York Times, David Brooks has penned an article titled, "The Crisis of Western civilization," about the rise of illiberal threats to Western civilization in the past couple of years. Although Mr. Brooks wisely begins by noting that the West is successful because of its ideas and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at Right Reason
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Change is Hard
Not a half-year out of his presidency, Barack Obama is already filing to the trough laid out by corrupt system of crony capitalism. This September, the former president will be paid $400,000 to address Cantor Fitzgerald’s healthcare conference. Matthew Yglesias reacts over at Vox: That's so much cash, for so... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2017 at Right Reason
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Comparative Advantage at 200
Posted Apr 19, 2017 at Right Reason
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Propagandacast 1413: Precipice of steel
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Posted Apr 18, 2017 at Right Reason
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In Review: Episode VIII Teaser Trailer
Am I the only person to think that the line "it's time for the Jedi to end" is extremely insulting to the original trilogy? The original trilogy ended with The Return of the Jedi, and the destruction of the Sith order for good. Why is this trilogy so willing to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2017 at Right Reason
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Hunter S. Thompson and The Great Gatsby
Today is the 92nd anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. One of the lesser known factoids about The Great Gatsby is Hunter S. Thompson's inspiration from the work and this is covered in an article about him from The New Yorker, "Believer": There is a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2017 at Right Reason
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The Blood of Martyrs Irrigates the Egyptian Soil
Posted Apr 10, 2017 at Right Reason
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National Geographic on Early Human Cannibalism
National Geographic has a fascinating, if not macabre, article about cannibalism in human evolution. The article starts with a discussion of a recent findings about the nutritional value of a human carcass and then questions why, given those findings, cannibalism would ever be as endemic as it seems to have... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2017 at Right Reason
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The Centenary of American Intervention in WW1
Posted Apr 7, 2017 at Right Reason
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Punitive Attacks in Syria
Vox reports: The United States has just intentionally bombed a Syrian regime target for the first time since the country’s civil war began in 2011. So far, it has been a limited cruise missile strike targeting one Syrian airbase, causing an as-yet-unknown number of casualties. "Dozens of Tomahawks were launched... Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2017 at Right Reason
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A Rant on Deceptive Market-Failure Arguments
Over at the Niskanen Center, Samuel Hammond has written one of the worst articles I’ve ever read on mutual-aid societies and the welfare state. So let’s begin my rant: The conventional libertarian argument has always been a bit hand-wavey, pointing to eras in history where, yes, government was smaller and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2017 at Right Reason
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Art on a Languid Evening
Posted Mar 30, 2017 at Right Reason
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An Argument For More Boxing
Why more people should embrace boxing, from The Economist's 1843: Boxing and canoeing are more energy-sapping, though less accessible. According to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association, 48m Americans pulled on their running shoes in 2015 (the country has a similar proportion of joggers to Australia, with Britain trailing). By... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2017 at Right Reason
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What Is Liberalism's Triumph?
This sociability… or this Care of maintaining Society in a Manner conformable to the Light of human reason Understanding, is the Fountain of Right, properly so called; to which belongs the Abstaining from that which is another’s… -Hugo Grotius, On the Rights of War and Peace The Economist has recently... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2017 at Right Reason
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