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Prometheus Institute Wins Templeton Award

Prometheus Institute Wins Templeton Award

The Prometheus Institute is proud to announce that it has been selected as a winner of the 2008 Templeton Freedom Awards, winning the Special Achievement for a Young Institute recognition. The Institute, among 15 other recipients in separate categories, were chosen fro...

5 Reasons Why Your High School Education Sucked

5 Reasons Why Your High School Education Sucked

Over the past half-decade, I've been a private tutor to some of the most privileged brats in Orange County. This vocation has afforded me a great opportunity, not just in being able to transfer my barely passable knowledge of quadratic equations and plate tectonics to ...

Into the Sunset - The past, present, and future of the American auto industry

Into the Sunset - The past, present, and future of the American auto industry

Once upon a time, American automobiles were the pinnacle of excellence.  Whether one was seeking performance, luxury or convenience, the best choice was to buy domestic.  An example of such innovation was the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham: a 345 horsepower luxury se...

Metropolitics

Metropolitics

It's quite unfortunate that American national elections are perceived as a Partisan Death Match through which 51% of the nation gets to impose its personal beliefs on the hapless 49% minority. America's Culture War (Kulturkampf for you Germans out there) is still raging,...

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We know that the majority of America was against the October ‘Wall Street bailout’...

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Five Reasons Why the US is Like A Bloated Corporation

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Testing Economic Theory with Music

Today we're going to do an economic experiment with music. You may have heard of...

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I am looking forward to this film like few in recent memory. Based on the short...

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