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Kate Cocks Was No Saint

Kate Cocks Was No Saint

Lainie Anderson University of South Australia Lainie Anderson is writing a murder mystery novel based on the policing career of Kate Cocks as part of a PhD in Communication at the University of South Australia. She’s been a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007. In 1915, an

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Equality Is Not Good

Equality Is Not Good

Lawrence W Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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We Should Be So Lucky!

We Should Be So Lucky!

A few years ago I took part in an online discussion with various political junkies, mostly psephologists from British universities including a couple of well known ‘election experts’ from Nuffield College, Oxford, and I gained a certain reputation when I pointed out where they were mistaken. Typically for left wingers

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The Origin Story of the Creepy Clown

Madeline Steiner University of South Carolina Madeline Steiner’s work combines the history of the entertainment industry with the history of Gilded Age business and capitalism. Her dissertation was a study of the traveling amusement industry at the turn of the 20th century including circuses, minstrel shows, and Wild West

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The World’s Oldest Living Culture of DV

The World’s Oldest Living Culture of DV

As I’ve been reporting, the left are suddenly all a-Twitter about this week’s Current Thing: appalling domestic violence in Aboriginal communities. Yet, this horrifying state of affairs has been well known for years — for anyone who bothered to notice. But, as some Aboriginal Australians have dared to point

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The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. An often-overlooked aspect of

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The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. In 1683, the most dangerous man in the world escaped from England to the Netherlands. He didn’t look very formidable. He was 51 years

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