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In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

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In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

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Through the lens of the Jock/Nerd Theory of History, the welfare state doesn't look like a serious effort to "equalize outcomes." It looks more like a serious effort to block the "revenge of the nerds"—to keep them from using their financial success to unseat the jocks on every dimension of social status.

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Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

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Born: April 8, 1971 (age 54)
Bio: Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American economist. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and blogger for EconLog.

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