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  • Colleges

    Source: David Friedman’s Substack
    by David Friedman

    “Having observed undergraduate education as an undergraduate, as a professor and as a parent visiting schools, I have some thoughts on the subject.” (03/11/26)

    https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/colleges

  • A Dumb War Makes Trumpworld Dumber

    Source: Mother Jones
    by David Corn

    “War is an extreme action and, thus, triggers extreme reactions. Including extreme stupidity. It’s always disheartening — or ought to be — to see what should be a last resort comes to pass. It’s worse when a war is accompanied by cruelty, callousness, recklessness, and idiocy, though for obvious reasons that might be unavoidable. As for Trump’s war in Iran — which could well be an immense blunder — it has been enveloped in layers of excessive dumbness. I’m not talking about the strategic wisdom — or lack thereof — of this attack, which could precipitate calamities throughout the region and beyond. Or the madness of impulsively launching such a war without planning for what comes afterward. I’m referring to how it has prompted imbecility among its supporters, including at the White House.” (03/11/26)

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/iran-war-trump-hegseth-graham-white-house-dumb-twitter/

  • Capitalism in Inches and Pounds: A Parable

    Source: Center for a Stateless Society
    by Kevin Carson

    “The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense. All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources — means of production and raw materials — are entirely the product of labor acting on free gifts of nature. The entire point at issue is the legitimacy of the process by which capitalists happen to be in possession of those paper or digital claims, and how workers come to be dependent on those claims.” (03/11/26)

    https://c4ss.org/content/61050

  • If Food Truck Reform Is Good for One County, It’s Good for All

    Source: Show-Me Institute
    by Patrick Tuohey

    “With Kansas City preparing to host matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to simplify food truck licensing in Jackson County. The proposal would allow vendors licensed by the county to operate in any municipality without additional city permits. The change would remove a common barrier: multiple permits just to cross a city boundary. The idea makes sense. But if it will help entrepreneurs and visitors during the World Cup, why should the same principle not apply across Missouri?” (03/11/26)

    https://showmeinstitute.org/article/economy/if-food-truck-reform-is-good-for-one-county-its-good-for-all/

  • Alas, Poor Yorick

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “Working from home is a very old idea, becoming new again during this Age of the Internet. COVID made telework something of a mania. But there’s been some withdrawal of support for the arrangement from major corporations, and one of the main results of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort in government was to bring government workers back into the office. Well, sort of.” (03/11/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/11/alas-poor-yorick/