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Make No Mistake: Fidel Castro Was a Horrible Person
Cuba’s former dictator, Fidel Castro, has died at the age of 90. When I woke up on Saturday morning to see the news, I was surprised by the reaction of many friends on social media, as well as the...
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Pope Francis’s Failure to See Entrepreneurs as Good Samaritans Undercuts the...
On April 25, a videotaped talk by Pope Francis was released at the international TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. The 18-minute talk, titled “Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone,”...
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How a Charity Uses Fake Money and Auction Markets to Help Feed America
Feeding America is a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs that helps to feed 46 million Americans annually, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors. The...
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Pope Francis Film Promotes Tolerance but Flawed Thinking on Poverty
As I sat watching the documentary Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, I kept thinking Pope Francis would have trouble navigating my senior seminars on social entrepreneurship. Even though the social...
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World Bank Study Finds That Deregulation Reduces Extreme Poverty
Regardless of where you might live around the world, if you live on less than $2 a day, you would be considered to be living in extreme poverty. According to the World Bank, in 2015 about 736 million...
View ArticleThree Assumptions the Left Makes About Economic Inequality
Too often, public policy discussions about economic redistribution do not make a clear distinction between the goals of helping those in poverty and reducing inequality. The implied assumption is that...
View ArticleEconomic Liberty Alleviates Poverty Better Than Any Government Program
Question: From your perspective, what are the most effective means of keeping people out of poverty? What are the most effective means of lifting people out of poverty? People have struggled with how...
View ArticleP. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022)
We were greatly saddened by the news that our very dear friend Patrick Jake “P.J.” O’Rourke had passed away on February 15th, at the age of 74, of complications from lung cancer. P.J. was peerless as a...
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