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The American Land Question

Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.

10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | Continued

How Free Markets Break Down Discrimination

One of my favorite lines in the classic movie The Magnificent Seven comes when a traveling salesman and his partner offer to pay the local undertaker to haul a dead Indian to boot hill. The undertaker refuses. He’d like to oblige, he explains, but the townsfolk are so prejudiced against burying Indians alongside whites that [...]

1Apr2008 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | Continued