Steve’s Newsletter 1(7)

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With Liberty and Salmonella for All Well, July 4th is coming up. I guess it’s time to dust off the Lee Greenwood cassette and celebrate the freest place on earth! I’m speaking of Finland of course. Finding a metric of freedom is difficult. I like using the nonpartisan Freedom House which scores political rights and […]

Steve’s Newsletter 1(6)

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Shirley Jackson’s Lottery as Allegory for Fraud Prevention Laws (I’m going to spoil an eight-page short story easily found on the internet, so maybe read that first if you haven’t already read The Lottery.) The Lottery is set in a small, unnamed, presumably American community where inhabitants are excitedly gearing up for the annual event […]