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** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
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They who have read about everything are thought to understand everything, too, but it is not always so; reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections--we must chew them over again.
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February 3, 2022
Leftists Have It Wrong on Rights ([link removed])
One of the central defects among leftists (that is, “liberals,” progressives, socialists, or interventionists) is their wrong-headed view of the nature of people’s rights. Their belief on this issue is one of the distinguishing characteristics between leftists and libertarians. Leftists believe that people’s rights come from the government or from the Constitution. As such, they view rights not so much as rights but ...
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