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September 9, 2020 – Wendy McElroy …… Thomas Sowell concluded that “A vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of racial oppression.”
February 9, 2020 – Tyler Curtis …… All arguments in favor of mandatory service rest on the idea that an individual’s life belongs not to him- or herself, but to the state.
September 15, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… The resurgent claim that the modern economy was built on slavery is yet another attempt to attack capitalism while also claiming “we are all to blame” for slavery. The slave owners of old tried a very similar tactic.
August 28, 2019 – Lawrence Reed …… Only men petitioned Parliament before 1825. The custom was broken in that year when 2,000 members of Townsend’s Female Society for Birmingham signed a petition demanding that the House of Commons enact an emancipation bill. It was the first snowball in an avalanche. Hundreds of thousands of women signed similar petitions until the Abolition Act was finally passed in 1833.
October 31, 2018 – Antony Mueller …… Tyranny does not rest on force but on submission.
August 24, 2018 – Scott McPherson …… Forcing an individual into the service of anyone, including the government, is slavery.