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Why Impossible Things Are Everywhere
A dozen brief musings on the role of mathematics and God in the ubiquity of highly improbable occurrences.
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Robert F. Graboyes
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The Disruptive Innovator in Healthcare
A conversation with author/MD Jason Hwang on barriers to innovation in healthcare, disruptive innovation in health and technology, big versus small…
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Generalissimo Franco, Dead Parrot, ERA
In 1978, I asked a question that led a state senator to kill the ERA in Virginia, perhaps dooming it nationally. (And I can't remember whether I favored…
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Second Conversation with Temple Grandin
America's destructive disdain for vocational-technical education. Innovation's need for small, nimble firms. Real-world eyeballing as check on academic…
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Huzzah! Official Inaugural Souvenirs
Four frame-worthy BASTIAT'S WINDOW graphics on the Presidency, including "Schoolhouse Rock 2025—How a Bill Becomes an Amendment"
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Stolen Stories
Warning to friends: Su cuento es mi cuento
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Bull Moose versus Weak Horse
The Founders and T.R. got it. Carter and Biden didn't. Trump might.
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If You’re Breathing, There’s Still Time.
A tale of lives restarted and restarted again, and then restarted once again
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2025 Inaugural Seance!!!
FAKE ART NEWS! 47 Brand-New Portraits by 47 Long-Gone Artists!
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Alanna Graboyes
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Manifest Destiny 2025
Quick takes on Donald Trump's four hemispheric ambitions
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Different, but Not Less
Robert Graboyes and Temple Grandin discuss the economic virtues of neurodiversity
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Music, Art, and History for New Year's Eve
Haud Hogmanay and Happy New Year from BASTIAT'S WINDOW
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