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Two Treatises of Government: Smashing Filmer
Locke explores the nature of sovereignty as part of his attack on Filmer.
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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.
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Two Treatises of Government: Every Man His Own Cromwell
Locke’s real purpose in overturning Filmer is erecting an unassailable new political order not subject to rebellions and revolution from below.
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To Block or Not: The Ethics and Externalities of Online Discourse
Blocking is an easy way to hide disagreement, but doesn’t do much to end it, and scales poorly.
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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.