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The Spanish Enlightenment and the Founding Fathers
The scholars of the Spanish Enlightenment are often overlooked as influencial to political thought throughout the Americas.
Justice, prosperity, responsibility, tolerance, cooperation, and peace.
Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called libertarians.
Start Exploring What is Libertarianism?
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William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass on Disunionism
Smith discusses the importance of Garrison’s call for the free states to secede from the Union, and the eventual disagreement with Frederick Douglass.
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Smarter Together, to What Ends? A Review of AIQ
Education alone won’t dispel fear of artificial intelligence.
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Understanding Statistics
Many economists use statistics to help us understand how markets operate. Without assuming any prior mathematical knowledge, Antony Davies introduces some of the measures and methods used by economists in their work.
Antony Davies is associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar at George Mason University.