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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong
Beginning in the West: Columbus "Discovers" Sacramento...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong
Trusted people can become decievers under great emotional stress.
Two years after the American Civil War Lysander Spooner published an outrageous tract titled "No Treason" which argues that a social contract agreed to by some people isn't binding on all people.
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Over the years, the strongest challenge to my minimize-the-government libertarian ideas has been anarcho-capitalism. This blog post isn't about that. The second strongest challenge to my libertarian ideas has been Georgism. Ultimately I rejected Georgism, but I don't have good arguments against it, and the arguments Georgists raise are fairly persuasive. This blog post isn't exactly about that, either.
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A researcher named Fischer discovered that the public and emergency services spend too much effort on preventing certain kinds of aftermaths to disasters that rarely happen--with the result that resources are not directed where they are needed most. I found out a lot about this before Hurricane Katrina and even before the northeastern power blackout. Fischer's research led me to expect that the media plays up panic and gouging and looting. When I heard about Katrina victims shooting at the rescue aircraft, I thought of Fischer and concluded that such guilty victims were mere rumors. But the reportage got worse and worse, and I started to doubt Fischer's research. Turned out much later, I was right in the first place, and so was Fischer. No aircraft reported being shot at. No babies were raped in the sports stadium. No confirmed murders at the sports stadium.
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