janeiro 2025

Thank Jimmy Carter for Cheap Airfare

Thank Jimmy Carter for Cheap Airfare

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Social media is replete with memes showing photos from the glory days of airline travel, where well-dressed travelers—think scenes from the TV show “Mad Men”—reclined in comfy seats, drank wine, and ate cooked meals. It’s a huge disconnect from our modern airline experiences, which are punctuated by surly crowds, automated systems, and long TSA lines. The point of the social-media photos: Look at how good things were then and how awful they are now. Like all nostalgia, they […]

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Novo chefe de comunicação do governo demite secretário de imprensa da Presidência

Novo chefe de comunicação do governo demite secretário de imprensa da Presidência

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O novo chefe da Secretaria de Comunicação Social (Secom), Sidônio Palmeira, decidiu exonerar o secretário de Imprensa da Presidência, José Chrispiniano, nesta quinta-feira, 9. O novo nome para ocupar o cargo deve ser o de Laércio Portela, atual secretário de Comunicação Institucional. Sidônio Palmeira, que assumiu a Secom no lugar de Paulo Pimenta, está em fase de montagem de sua equipe e já despachou com o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). + Leia mais notícias de […]

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Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford

Review: The Radicals Who Tried To Kill Gerald Ford

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In September 1975, two California women each tried unsuccessfully to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The podcast Rip Current examines both women’s stories, plus the radical politics of a counterculture whose desperate last gasps informed their worldviews. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a 26-year-old Charles Manson disciple, tried to shoot Ford in Sacramento, but her gun misfired. Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old housewife who had gotten in too deep with radicals, fired at Ford in San Francisco 17 days later, but a bystander […]

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Review: Cabaret's Broadway Revival

Review: Cabaret’s Broadway Revival

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Cabaret begins with the Kit Kat Klub’s flamboyant master of ceremonies enticing the audience to leave their worries outside: “Life is disappointing? Forget it!” It ends with the same character—an unforgettably haunting performance by Eddie Redmayne when I saw the show this past summer, though Adam Lambert took over the role in October—donning a boxy suit and attempting to blend into a world where drawing attention to yourself in certain ways is no longer safe. That’s the real tragedy […]

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Do you have experience that change your mind how you see the world?

Do you have experience that change your mind how you see the world?

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You used to think some way, similar to most people. Then you found something,. Then you change your mind. Then it change your life and life strategies. For example, I used to think reasoning is useful. Then I learn humans have hidden motives that do not show up on reasoning. That is why many wise people like Carnegie says to avoid arguments. Instead of arguments I should have bargaining position. People don’t steal my stuff because there are […]

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Tweet The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal relays the undeniable news that fiscal realities are not optional. A slice: Say what you will about 2025, the year is off to a rocky start for anyone who needs to figure out how to fund a government. Bond yields are rising across the developed world, raising some awkward questions about when politics will catch up with new economic realities. In the U.S., 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are […]

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TGIF: Efficient Bureaucracy?

TGIF: Efficient Bureaucracy?

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With all the talk about government efficiency, it would be useful to remind ourselves why bureaucracies differ radically from for-profit businesses. Ludwig von Mises devoted a short but enlightening volume to this subject in 1944, Bureaucracy. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will co-chair the nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, should do some homework by reading that book. Mises, as an advocate of limited government, did not argue that bureaucracy has no place in a free society. In […]

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