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							<title><![CDATA[Democracies Can't Live in Perpetual Stimulus]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The British government has run a budget surplus in only six of the 37 years since 1975. The American government has run a budget surplus in only five of the 52 years since 1960. The Canadian government has run a budget surplus in only 10 of the 46 years since 1966. As Hudson Institute...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World is Spending Itself to Death]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1900, the governments of the world&rsquo;s most advanced economies taxed  and spent, on average, 10 per cent of respective GDP each year. By  2000, they taxed and spent 33 per cent &ndash; France alone taxed and spent  more than 50 per cent.In its most recent analysis of government ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George Washington Saved the Constitution]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When George Washington stepped aside as president at the end of his  second term, he knew the importance of his action. Perhaps, he told a  friend, the Constitution would need an amendment to prohibit presidents  from taking third terms. Yet, he thought his personal precedent might ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov't Gets Bigger--Even as It Grows Weaker]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Controversial Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld argued (in his brilliant The Rise and Decline of the State)  that government &#194;&#150; the most important institution in the world &#194;&#150; peaked  in the 20th century and was now, as another seer once memorably put it,  withering away....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Spendthrift State &amp; the Public's Burden]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In discussing the principle of government debt, 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume took his lead from the ancient world. For the Athenians, the Macedonians, the Egyptians, the Romans and, especially, the frugal Spartans, he said, it was customary for governments...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Spending 6.2 Hours in the ER]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie tells us, on the very first page of Peter and Wendy,  that Wendy knew at 2 that she must grow up. Humans are spared a  conscious recognition of mortality, he wrote, for the briefest of time.  &ldquo;Two,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sliding Into a Tyranny of Good Intentions?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly 50 years ago, Kenneth Minogue, a professor of political science at the London School of Economics, published The Liberal Mind, his classic study of the dominant philosophy of the 20th century: radical niceness. Rooted in extreme liberal optimism and salvationist aspiration, this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please Remain Calm: Earth Will Heal Itself]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Stanford University physicist Robert Laughlin says governments &ndash; and people generally &ndash; should proceed with more humility in dealing with climate change. The Earth, he says, is very old and has suffered grievously: volcanic explosions, floods, meteor impacts, mountain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Welfare State Disintegrating?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Reynolds</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democracies produced Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, fulfilling the expectation of Socrates and Machiavelli that democracies end in tyranny. Now democracies are fulfilling the complementary expectation of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman that democracies end in bankruptcy. Put a...]]></description>
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