Nomads and Farmers: Who’s the Real Livestock?

Nomads and Farmers: Who’s the Real Livestock?

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Ever notice how history paints nomads as wild, dangerous outsiders, while farmers are seen as the backbone of “civilization”? But think about it — who’s really free in that story? Farmers are tied to the land. They work the same fields day after day, season after season. They’re easy to find, easy to tax, easy to control. In fact, they need protection from the state to keep their land, crops, and borders secure. The state loves farmers because […]

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Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

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There is a plausible theory of the case for the dramatic rise in illiberal, speech-stultifying wokeness in America beginning a dozen or so years ago: that it’s largely a bottom-up, millennial affair. “In late 2013,” Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), explained in Reason‘s January 2022 issue, “there was an explosion in censorship that was student-led….The generation hitting campuses in 2013 had been educated by the graduates of…activist education schools. In some […]

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