Patrick Carroll

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Los Angeles Education Workers Wouldn’t Have to Strike If We Rethought the Education System

A massive three-day strike took over Los Angeles this week as 30,000 education support staff walked off the job, protesting…

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Why Taxes Are Harmful: A Response to The Woke Salaryman

A Singapore-based webcomic called The Woke Salaryman recently posted a comic extolling the virtues of taxation and encouraging people to…

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The One-Sided Environmental Thinking behind ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

After 13 years of waiting, Avatar finally has a sequel in the newly released Avatar: The Way of Water. The…

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Why These Popular Chocolate Easter Eggs Are Banned in the US, despite Being Legal Almost Everywhere Else

In January 2011, Manitoba resident Lind Bird was stopped at the US border in northern Minnesota and selected for a…

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4 Ways to Influence People’s Behavior Besides Coercion

While people have wildly different views on the proper role of government, most would agree that coercive laws should at…

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Why There’s No Such Thing as Being Your Own Boss

Entrepreneurship is probably one of the best things about capitalism. You can earn a fair bit of money if you…

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33 of the Best Robert Heinlein Quotes on Liberty, Politics, and Culture

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most popular science fiction writers. He wrote 32 novels over…

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New Hampshire Bakery Ordered to Remove Mural Because It Depicts Pastries

On the morning of June 14, 2022, a new mural was unveiled above the entrance to Leavitt’s Country Bakery in…

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How a Massachusetts Town Seized a Farmer’s $370k Property to Cover a $60k Tax Debt—and Kept the Change

Alan DiPietro is an alpaca farmer in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts (pop: 5,376). He lives in an RV on…

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The Freedom Convoy Debate Demonstrates Why a ‘Right to Free Speech’ Makes No Sense

It’s hard to believe, but the one-year anniversary of the Canadian Freedom Convoy is upon us. It was January 22,…

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