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December 11, 2025
** THE FREEDOM SCALE
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** Sherlock Holmes Explains Why You Have Rights
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What did Sherlock Holmes mean when he said no man has the right to play with another’s life? This new article follows Holmes’ method—“eliminate the impossible”—to show that self-ownership is a real fact of the universe, while any supposed birthright to rule others simply doesn’t exist. Once ontological supremacy is ruled out, the only coherent moral order left is one where your body, property, and liberty are yours alone.
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** Protest + Civil Disobedience
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UNDERTHROW SERIES
** Reclaiming Our Locus of Control
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If 2025 exposed the rot in our institutions, it also revealed something more uncomfortable: how easily we surrender our own agency. This Underthrow episode contrasts a culture of victimhood with Ernst Jünger’s “Anarch”—the person who preserves inner sovereignty while navigating external systems. It calls 2026 a year for reclaiming our internal locus of control, forming networks, and becoming “counterpower” instead of waiting for saviors.
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ECONOMICS
** How Germany Became the World’s Worst-Performing Economy
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Once Europe’s economic engine, Germany is now the world’s worst-performing major economy—shrinking output, losing jobs, and drowning in welfare costs. This article explains how a modest postwar safety net ballooned into a system that spends 31% of GDP on social programs and pushes labor costs to unsustainable levels. The result is a hard lesson in what happens when redistribution outpaces wealth creation.
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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHT
** Leftism: Environmental Protection or Destruction?
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Everyone blames capitalism for environmental damage—but this piece flips the script, exposing how top-down regimes wrecked the planet through the tragedy of the commons.
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