I talk a lot about the conventional version of history, and the problems with it. I talk about the lack of curiosity on the part of students who simply repeat the conventional version, without bothering to ask simple questions. Here’s part of my pitch for my 2011…
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Today’s the last day to get a free copy of Kevin Gutzman’s New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution as a gift for joining my LibertyClassroom.com . Details here .

Ryan Tracy writes: Four years ago I was a twenty-one-year-old heroin addict living on the streets of Portland, Oregon. I was walking to my job and I noticed a dollar bill lying in the grass along the sidewalk next to a book. For whatever reason…
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I can’t do that, obviously. But although the kind of video you see below is often done badly, this one had me smiling and laughing throughout. A regular guy tries explaining the state to an alien.

Over on Rob Port’s blog , we get confirmation of what we’ve been hearing anecdotally: according to the BLS, 48% of recent college graduates are in jobs requiring less than a four-year degree. Rob then cites a Forbes article: In 2011, 1.5 million, or 53.6% of college grads…
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Glenn Jacobs, better known as Kane , is a smart and likable guy. He’s considering a run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Lamar Alexander in 2014. Alexander is everything one might loathe in a mainstream GOPer — he’s for interventions abroad and at home, which in Joe Sobran’s playful definition makes…
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I’ll be speaking, and doing some odd things, at the Bowery Electric on June 8; doors open at 2:00pm. Bob Murphy and I will reprise the zombie character, have a mock Krugman debate, do some speaking, perhaps even some singing, and take audience questions. Take $5 off tickets with…
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An excellent piece on the Obama administration, the media, and abuses of power. Except this sentence: “Now, no one knows what the hell their own government is doing with drones in places like Waziristan and Somalia, nor the futility and misery we inflicted in Iraq and Afghanistan.”…
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by Erica Klarreich On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named…
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