ArchiveApril 21, 2015

Why the feds should get out of the student loan business

As we move into the twenty-first century, the commodities we want to produce are becoming less “Smithian”. More education–and I do not think anyone in the U.S. is happy with the decisions twenty-year olds are currently making about how much education they should get and how to finance the debt incurred. Deciding to fund education via long-term loan-finance and to leave societal...

Making fun of social justice, Star Wars version

Godfrey Elfwick regularly mocks social justice, and the guy is hilarious. He managed to get invited onto the BBC and attack Star Wars for being racist and misogynist: Referring to C-3PO and Darth Vader by the wrong names, he went on: “The gold robot – C-25 or whatever he’s called – is a camp, neurotic coward. “The only main female ends up in a space bikini chained to a horny space slug. “The main...

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