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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: If we’re truly honest with ourselves, we would recognize news ultimately as a form of gossip. Who’s having business trouble? Which actress embarrassed herself? What do the elite think about fashion? Some of it is valuable, but most of it is merely entertainment for us. As such, salacious accusations of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In the increasingly partisan atmosphere of America, some might hear “democratic fallacy” and immediately assume that it’s an insult directed toward supporters of the Democratic Party and its platform. However, it’s actually a real logical fallacy that we’re constantly bombarded with in politics, advertising, and our everyday discourse. According to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: When we pontificate upon or dream of further human progress, it is often accompanied by utopian images of peace, equality, and tolerance. And yet if we look to the past to measure human progress we find not peace and equality, but rather conflict and intolerance. In The Devil’s Pleasure Palace,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Professionally, Peter Gray is known for his prominent book on psychology and for his professorship at Boston College. To the general public, however, Gray is perhaps best known for his book Free to Learn, which argues that the institutional nature of schooling is killing the natural learning ability of our…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall A professor wondered Saturday whether his young children would be able to be friends with white people, in light of events like the Trump presidency and the Charlottesville riots. Ekow N. Yankah, a professor at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, argued that he will have…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The disconnect between the city and the country is a theme English teachers love to use in order to show the difference in lifestyles our own country has. But there is a real disconnect. As cities are havens of technology and becoming even more interconnected with one another, rural America…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: We have come a long way since Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign that ushered libertarianism onto the national stage. 2018 is promising to see many liberty candidates, but here are just some who have made impacts in their own races, earlier races, and on the national stage as well. Larry…
These data breaches are absurd. It needs to be said. Almost 150 million Americans had their Social Security Numbers divulged. Hackers with access to these numbers and the right know-how can create false identities: stealing assets, creating new lines of credit, and altogether absconding with your hard earned money. What to do about it? Today,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In 2016, the Libertarian Party gave us Gary Johnson. So they essentially gave us nothing, which is really not surprising, because when does America’s third largest party ever get anything at all done? Their Vice Chair is a hateful, anti-military hack and our Chair doesn’t bother to control him. In…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Sixteen years ago, 3,000 Americans lost their lives in one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in recent history. It sparked the current wave of military interventions; the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and by extension, the wars in Libya, Yemen, and Syria. The United States has been…