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Feb 19, 2022

Marriages as Contracts: A Case for Mandating Prenuptial Agreements

Let’s face it, traditional marriage has broken down. Gone are the days when men and women, motivated by the desire to self-propagate and the harsh economic realities, would dedicate themselves to one another in a lifetime commitment. Now, because of technology, the market and the welfare state, the individual can…

Marriage

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Marriage

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Nov 10, 2021

The Social Cost of Activism

TL;DR: There is inherent harm done when we criticize our useful institutions. To reduce this inherent harm done by criticism, we should always be honest and nuanced in our calls for reform. You may decide whether or not to advocate for a reform by simply weighting the reform’s cost and…

Activism

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Activism

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Oct 23, 2021

Centrally-Planned Freedom

Free markets and democracy seem to naturally go together. Both allow individuals to express their freedom and provide outcomes with legitimacy. But there becomes a point when democracy turns into populism, and free markets turn into a scapegoat. This is when people feel the need to have a vote on…

Economics

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Economics

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Oct 9, 2021

The Just-World Fallacy: Our Inner Liberal vs. Our Inner Conservative

Cognitive biases, systemic errors in thinking, are likely evolutionarily adapted for one purpose or another. Given that brain makes up only 2% of our weight but consumes about 25% of our energy. This exorbitant consumption made mental shortcuts all the more useful to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who lived at a…

Cognitive Bias

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Cognitive Bias

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Oct 2, 2021

Critical Nationalist Studies

The country we were born in is what makes us who we are. While we may not want to identify with this characteristic in an ideal world, this is not that world. History has ingrained this aspect of nationhood into who we are. Our nation’s institutions were built with a…

Critical Race Theory

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Critical Race Theory

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Apr 29, 2021

The Limits of Equal Opportunity

Equal opportunity is an ideal almost as universally revered as democracy and human rights. While people have different conceptions of what equal opportunity entails (formal vs. fair equal opportunity) the basic idea is similar across ideologies. People would like a system where outcomes are determined by the effort and skill…

Equal Opportunity

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The Limits of Equal Opportunity
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