Barry Brownstein
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Theocrats, Socialists, and the Totalitarian Impulse to Plan
We will probably never know the true death count of the courageous Iranian revolutionaries, but what has been shared in…
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Invest in a Growth Mindset: The Antidote to America’s Black-Pilled Nihilism
Being blackpilled isn’t just for incels anymore — a 2025 analysis points to a rising “cultural nihilism” among Gen Z…
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Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
If I were to sum up the mindset of New Yorkers who elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York…
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Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Zeal Is Still Warping Young Minds
Having read and written extensively (for example, here) about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified…
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Adam Smith on Duty and ‘the Great Division’ of the Human Spirit
Ichiro Suzuki was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer. With his nearly unmatched bat control, Ichiro had…
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New Yorkers Flirt with Socialist Grocery Store Scheme
Living in New York City is not easy. The Cato Institute ranks New York State as the least free state…
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Nazis Teach Us How to Defeat Them
The late Peter Drucker is considered the father of modern management theory. Born in Vienna, he was a young lecturer…
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The Steep Price of Declining Civility
Civilization is fragile. Countless social and commercial interactions build civilization. In one of his most essential essays, “Individualism: True and…
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Adam Smith vs. the Tariff State: A Timeless Case for Free Trade
If you maintain that over time, the United States has been the best country at exemplifying the teachings of Adam…
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David Hume’s Stark Warning: Reason Serves Passion
David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature has been called “one of the keystone books of western philosophy,” “the founding…
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