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		<title>There were proposals to abolish the penitentiary mode of punishment and return to hard labor, corporal punishment, and even banishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American prison experiment has a 250-year history of good intentions and bad results: Eastern State Penitentiary is one of the places where the American prison experiment began, and where one of its most bizarre iterations was tested on human beings. After it opened in 1829, Eastern State was, as it is now, a tourist [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s cities are, by and large, bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s cities are, by and large, bad: The easiest way to see this is to understand the primary reason why they’re so bad: crime. The big benefit of cities for countries is that they’re economic engines of progress due to agglomeration effects: benefits and cost-savings that appear because companies, services, and workers are geographically collocated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention had no provisions for inspections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 1990, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), they were informed that a “trilateral agreement” had been reached between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain to organize a series of reciprocal visits to suspected biological warfare facilities: The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention had no provisions for inspections, a limitation that continues to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The poverty of the lab seemed grimmer by comparison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was impossible to believe, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) that their most important military rival, the U.S., wasn’t pursuing an active biological warfare program: As part of my duties at Biopreparat I reviewed our budget regularly with Gosplan, the state economic planning agency. Every time I visited the block-long building on Gorky Street, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Those re-entering dummy warheads were seen by tens of thousands of people in Peru and Chile</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I noted that Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor, about a nationalist Japanese plot to cripple the US economy and seize US-controlled islands, is best remembered for presaging the 9/11 attacks, and Roo_ster found “echoes of Jerry Pournelle and his sci-fi buds from the 1960s through the 1980s,” which led Bruce to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>88 million American adults own guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the 2026 National Firearms Survey, 32.7% of U.S. adults (95% CI 32.2% – 33.2%) personally own firearms, suggesting that approximately 88 million American adults own guns: Following the practice of major survey programs such as the General Social Survey, Gallup, and Pew’s American Trends Panel, household income is not employed as a weighting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Panamanian officials see them as retaliation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/09/panamanian-officials-see-them-as-retaliation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panama is paying a price for stepping away from Beijing: Recent reporting indicates that Chinese authorities have sharply increased inspections and detentions of Panamanian-flagged ships after Panama’s Supreme Court struck down the concessions held by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison at the Balboa and Cristobal container terminals. Beijing says the measures are based on safety concerns. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophic normal accidents will happen with increasing regularity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first decades of the twentieth century, Harold Robertson explains, the idea that individuals should be systematically evaluated and selected based on their ability rather than wealth, class, or political connections, led to significant changes in selection techniques at all levels of American society: The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) revolutionized college admissions by allowing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>They gathered their neighbors, formed organizations, accepted responsibility, and built institutions together</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/08/they-gathered-their-neighbors-formed-organizations-accepted-responsibility-and-built-institutions-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often describe homeschooling as opting out, Robert Pondiscio notes, but he suggested something different to a group of “graduating” homeschoolers: Your parents may have exited one educational institution. But they didn’t stop there. For just a moment, they were consumers. They looked at the educational marketplace and concluded, “This school is not the right [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans live shorter lives despite being much richer</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/08/americans-live-shorter-lives-despite-being-much-richer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reasons Americans live shorter lives despite being much richer than their peers are well-understood at this point, Cremieux explains: The biggest contributor is that obesity is very bad for health, as countries get richer their citizens tend to get fatter, and America is the richest country. […] All Americans regardless of race are, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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