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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020
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Inheriting a strong, centralized state apparatus is part of the secret of the successes of both the Jacobin terror and of Bonaparte.
– Anthony de Jasay, The State ([link removed]) [1985]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 12, 2020
A Life of the Lie on Socialism ([link removed])
A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Timothy Egan, reflects one of the major problems we libertarians face in America: a life of the lie, a life that embraces a false reality. This life of self-deception is not intentional. It is entirely unwitting. Nonetheless, it is a root cause of much of the dysfunctional nature of American society. In a recent political op-ed ...
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