About: Jason Sorens
Posts by Jason Sorens:
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May 21, 2013 “Suits and Sandals”: Different Freedom Indices for Different Folks
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May 16, 2013 Efficiency, Utilitarianism, and Budget Priorities: A Response to Caplan’s Query
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May 14, 2013 Political Bias at the IRS Likely Deep-Seated
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May 10, 2013 Deserving Poor
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May 7, 2013 Interstate Protectionism and the Dormant Commerce Clause
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April 30, 2013 Freedom and Migration: More Numbers
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April 27, 2013 Affirmative Action: Unequal Protection?
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April 22, 2013 Pay Politicians More?
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April 10, 2013 FBI Trying to Infiltrate Keene, New Hampshire
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April 8, 2013 Freedom and Prosperity: Some Comparative Historical Reflections on State Policies and Performance
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April 7, 2013 This Week in the Broken Window Fallacy
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April 4, 2013 What the Freedom Index Considers and Why
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March 29, 2013 Ruger and Sorens on MSNBC Tonight
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March 29, 2013 Violent Buddhist Monks Lead Attacks on Muslims
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March 28, 2013 *Freedom in the 50 States* Released Today
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March 26, 2013 The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action
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March 25, 2013 Best Amazon Review Ever?
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March 25, 2013 Rand Paul Changes Americans’ Minds
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March 20, 2013 Moral Arguments for the Existence of God
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March 19, 2013 *Reason* on the Higher Ed Bubble
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March 19, 2013 *The War of the End of the World* by Mario Vargas Llosa
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March 18, 2013 Prewar Intelligence on Saddam’s Lack of WMD’s Ignored
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March 17, 2013 Steven Pearlstein Fails the Ideological Turing Test
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March 12, 2013 Freedom in the 50 States Teaser #3: Weighting the Variables
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March 9, 2013 Self-Imposed Stupidity on Rand Paul’s Filibuster
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March 6, 2013 Imprisoned for “Unlicensed Midwifery,” Fleeing California for New Hampshire
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February 27, 2013 University of Texas Secession Symposium
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February 25, 2013 The PhD Bust: America’s Awful Market for Young Scientists
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February 25, 2013 Matt Zwolinski on Property Rights
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February 17, 2013 Understanding the NH House Elections of 2012
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February 13, 2013 Freedom as a Moral Concept (Update)
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February 11, 2013 *The Righteous Mind* by Jonathan Haidt
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February 6, 2013 Hundreds of Unnecessary Deaths in One NHS Hospital
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February 5, 2013 Haidt’s Biased Survey Evidence on Libertarians (Updated)
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January 29, 2013 Noon Links
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January 29, 2013 John Samples on the Filibuster
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January 28, 2013 Don’t Go to Grad School
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January 25, 2013 End the Filibuster
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January 24, 2013 The 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum
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January 23, 2013 Occupational Licensing as an Implicit Barrier to High Skill Migration
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