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December 16, 2025
** ECONOMIC LIBERTY
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** The Most Important Thing Elon Musk Has Ever Tweeted
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Elon Musk’s tweet points to a simple truth: when a service has a state-mandated monopoly, the feedback loop for improvement breaks. This piece contrasts the “market machine,” driven by voluntary exchange, with the “government machine,” driven by compulsion—and argues why dysfunction isn’t a bug, it’s the design.
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** Protest + Civil Disobedience
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IMMIGRATION
** Immigration: The Lynchpin of Western Neo-Nationalism
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Populist nationalist movements have surged across the West—and immigration has become their political linchpin. This essay argues much of the rhetoric isn’t about costs or policy coherence, but about scapegoating outsiders, and it makes the case for judging people as individuals rather than collectives.
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SOCIALISM
** Mamdani’s Step-by-Step Plan to Destroy New York City
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New York’s new mayor-elect is pitching affordability and equity through rent freezes, public housing expansion, and sweeping criminal-justice changes. This piece argues those policies predictably shrink housing supply, deepen bureaucratic decay, and leave everyday residents less safe—while the well-connected opt out.
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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHT
** Sherlock Holmes Explains Why You Have Rights
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What does it mean when we say—when Holmes said—that no one has the right to play with another’s life? We feel the truth of this, but do we know it? Can we prove it?
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