Unexamined Opinions

The world is full of unexamined opinions. If you doubt this statement, here’s how to prove it to yourself: Educate yourself deeply on just about any subject, then go engage somebody in a discussion. After that discussion, go have another. And another. And another. Over the course of these discussions with your friends and family […]

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“Poore Endebted Discontented and Armed”

As I was reading A People’s History of the United States of America this morning, I came across this interesting quote: Times were hard in 1676. “There was genuine distress, genuine poverty…. All contemporary sources speak of the great mass of people as living in severe economic straits,” writes Wilcomb Washburn, who, using British colonial […]

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