Tag: government
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K-12 Education Spending
There is very little more essential to a free society than universal literacy and adequate public education. It is a civil rights issue. It is the foundation for absolutely everything else. To fail here is to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to a lifelong struggle. Quote is from The Argument’s post in…
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Which Countries Won’t Exist in the 22nd Century?
From Tyler Cowen in the FP: The biggest mistake we could make is to assume that political evolution is over, and that history represents ongoing directional progress toward ever more well-run nation-states. Port-au-Prince still has something to teach us in this regard. I’ve been thinking about why it would be that the United States wouldn’t…
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What I don’t know
Most things, it feels like. I get fixated on things that have non-obvious answers and endless developments. This whole tariff episode over the last week has made absolutely no sense to me. And it’s all I can pay attention to. It all feels very Covid-y where you wake up, see which part of the sky…