2000 – Joseph Bast | Writing

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What better time than this, when politics has gone mad, to visit with the greatest thinkers about permanent things?

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I’d Rather Read a Book

December 1, 2000

The political debate doesn’t need a new vocabulary so much as it needs a better understanding of the coalitions that defined the liberal and conservative movements.

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Our Friends, the Egalitarians

November 1, 2000

Liberty’s Bridge made the last century America’s Century. But unless we act, it won’t be strong enough to carry us and our children into the twenty-first century.

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Repairing Liberty’s Bridge

September 1, 2000

Maybe I am just paranoid. Or perhaps one day, in the not-too-distant future, it will be your turn to hear a knock on your door. And in the minutes that follow, you will be thinking to yourself, “I can’t believe this is happening in America.”

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I Can’t Believe This Is Happening in America

July 1, 2000

We thought the big picture of the Sears Tower with the giant letters spelling “HAHA” near the top sort of gave away the secret right away. I hope we didn’t make you spill your coffee.

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Readers Get Last Laugh on April Fool’s Joke

May 1, 2000

The combination brings together the nation’s most influential think tank for elected state officials and its most influential think tank for members of Congress. The new organization, The Heartland and Heritage Alliance (HAHA), will be headquartered in Chicago.

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Heartland Acquires Heritage Foundation to Form “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”

April 1, 2000

Today we trust markets to deliver our food, clothing, and shelter. Yet we leave the schooling of nine out of ten children in the cold and clumsy hands of government.

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School Reform @ the Speed of Thought

March 1, 2000

Turning to government to solve problems is a deeply ingrained cultural instinct that shows little sign of going away. There seems to be no crime too deadly, no act of mismanagement too costly, and no injustice too grievous to discredit governments in the eyes of their citizens.

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After 170 Million Deaths, Socialists Still Don’t Get It

February 1, 2000

What part of “cover your mouth when you cough” don’t kids understand? Is it a genetic thing? How could this have helped our species survive?

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Happy New Year! I Think I’m Going to Die . . .

January 1, 2000