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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Giants and Dwarfs by mlyoung57
Justice. Maybe some hope for the future of Pakistan. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Can an Employer Unilaterally Change the Terms of an Employment Contract? by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. Don’t bother reading Brennan. Just read this: LikeLike
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Social Media Censorship: Four Lessons from the Recent Suppression of Covid-19 Disinformation
On July 27th 2020, a group of physicians calling themselves “Frontline Doctors” posted a video to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The video displays licensed medical doctors in front of a supreme court building (1) advocating the reopening of schools, (2) suggesting that there are public health costs of lockdowns (e.g., excess suicides, cases of depression,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Can an Employer Unilaterally Change the Terms of an Employment Contract? by Irfan Khawaja
Brennan: I don’t know if this document qualifies as a contract in some legal sense, but in general, in legal contracts, even when there is language to the contrary, parties do not acquire the right to unilaterally revise the conditions. Marital vows …
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(Policy of Truth) Giants and Dwarfs
Two years ago, my cousins Sa’ad and Salman (Khawaja Saad Rafiq and Khawaja Salman Rafiq) were arrested in Pakistan on charges of “corruption” by that country’s absurdly named NAB, or National Accountability Bureau. For two years (and not for the first time), they endured incarceration and vilification at the government’s hands. The first time this…
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(QC RSS) Smoosh
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(Cat and Girl) Every Person in the USA
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Post-Modernism and Economics
I’m neither an epistemologist nor an economist; I offer this nonetheless. Post-modernism is, at root, a rejection of the view that knowledge has foundations. This does not entail that there is no knowledge or no objective truth. Nonetheless, Some post-modernists seem to mistakenly believe there is no objective truth. Economics, as the study of exchange,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (59): Arguing About Dentistry Under Lockdown by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Damanpreet_Kaur. Thanks, that was informative. As it happens, I’ve finally made an appointment to see my dentist next week! I missed my March appointment because of the pandemic, but I figured if I don’t go now, I may have to wa…
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