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		<title>A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialists have a long history of denying that other socialists are socialists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How socialist was Germany under National Socialism?, Bryan Caplan asks: I first started pondering Nazi economic policy during the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Since the end of World War II, mainstream culture had energetically covered Nazi crimes, but largely gave the Soviet bloc a pass. Yet in the late 80s and early 90s, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine understands Russia in ways that Western services never fully can</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s seizure of Crimea in 2014 exposed deep weaknesses inside Ukraine&#8217;s security services, including the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU): In 2015, the CIA helped support the creation of the SBU’s Fifth Directorate, a specialized unit that combined counterintelligence and special operations. According to reporting by The New Yorker, the unit developed networks of agents [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 17, 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned against the establishment of a &#8220;military-industrial complex,&#8221; but he also warned about a scientific-technological elite: Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>These little monsters have plagued livestock and humans in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas for centuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, good, Polimath quips, screwworms are back: Unlike most flies that lay eggs in dead and rotting organic matter, the Newworld Screwworm lays eggs in the open wounds and mucus membranes of living animals. The maggots then eat the animal (or human!) alive. Its scientific name is cochleomyia hominivorax which literally means “man-eating snail”. These [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>But most people don’t use the Internet for spiritual enrichment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Latin, Bryan Caplan notes (in The Case Against Education), “alma mater” means “nourishing mother”: A rich metaphor. A nourishing mother doesn’t merely teach you practical skills or help you land a well-paid job. She nurtures your whole person, teaches you right from wrong, and shows you the magic of life. […] I sincerely take [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Making kids study irrelevant material for a decade-plus is timelessly dysfunctional</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In backward nations, youths work, Bryan Caplan notes (in The Case Against Education), while in advanced nations, youths study: As civilization advances, the young spend ever more years sequestered from paid employment. The modern fear is that work might interfere with school, never that school might interfere with work. These rules are so ingrained they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Most academic classes amount to vocational training for ultrarare vocations</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/most-academic-classes-amount-to-vocational-training-for-ultrarare-vocations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The objection that the vocational track teaches students specific skills they need for their first job, while the academic track teaches students general skills they need for every job, is confused, Bryan Caplan argues (in The Case Against Education): While literacy and numeracy are genuinely general skills, most academic classes amount to vocational training for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>School is not vocational education’s only venue</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/school-is-not-vocational-educations-only-venue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School is not vocational education’s only venue, Bryan Caplan points out (in The Case Against Education): If learning job skills in the school is good, wouldn’t learning job skills on the job be better? Unfortunately, we have an innocuous yet infamous label for kids learning job skills on the job: “child labor.” Civilized adults recoil [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vocational ed stands out because it prepares students for common jobs</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/vocational-ed-stands-out-because-it-prepares-students-for-common-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Caplan explains (in The Case Against Education) why vocational education rules: In proponents’ eyes, vocational education raises pay, reduces un&#173;employment, and increases high school completion. Research, though a bit sparse, supports proponents on all counts. Core insight: vocational students are typically “academic underachievers” before entering the vocational track. The right metric isn’t, “How do [&#8230;]]]></description>
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