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This Week in Common Sense, February 10 — 14, 2020

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

The Seinfeld Referendum
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Rocky Mountain Low
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Creating a New Crime
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Catnip for Arrogant Politicians
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The Cost of Reparations
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Popular Posts (refresh for more)

Spoiler Season
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A Deplorable Christmas
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Systemic Refocusing
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The Ominous Linkages
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9 Dangers of “Democratic Socialism”
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Today in Freedom

On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).

Thomas Sowell

Areopagitica

Measures for Measures

Denial Is a River in Argentina?

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The Hill as Hallucinogen

Elon & Vivek to Cut Government?