Joe Bast
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Dr. Walter Williams was uncompromising in his conviction that maximum individual liberty not only was the best means of producing prosperity but was also essential to justice, peace, and even virtue.
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Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens, by William L. Kovacs (Red Bank, NJ: Newman Springs Publishing, 2019). Review by Joseph L. Bast November 10,…
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Walden is now regarded as a foundational text of natural history, ecology, and the modern environmental movement. Check out Joe Bast’s review of the book.
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Like Henry David Thoreau’s Walden published a century earlier, Leopold’s Almanac is filled with clever insights and aphorisms.
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Climate ChangeEducationEnvironment/EnergyScience
Teachers and Students at a Colorado Middle School React to ‘Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming’
by Joe Bast April 6, 2018Two teachers at a Colorado middle school used Why Scientists Disagree as part of their mini-indoctrination camp, and sent us letters bragging about their accomplishment.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Good, the Bad, and the Missed Opportunities of the ‘Climate Science Tutorial’ in San Francisco
by Joe Bast March 24, 2018Chevron left many false and misleading claims before the court, claims that contaminate the public debate on climate change and will continue to haunt the fossil fuel industry and threaten our energy freedom unless they are faced and debunked.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
He’s Right! Scott Pruitt Hits Ball Out of the Park on Climate Change
by Joe Bast March 5, 2018Not only can he take the heat but he can explain it.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Are Rolling Blackouts in New England’s Future? Yes, if They Rely on Solar and Wind
by Joe Bast March 3, 2018“Looking ahead seven years, ‘the study found that rolling blackouts would be needed in 19 out of the 23 scenarios’.”
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This thinly sourced story should not have run. Ed Crane deserves better.
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We will put these quotations to good use in our fundraising letters and proposals this year, and for that, we thank the authors.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
Heartland Institute Responds to, Corrects Inside Climate News Story
by Joe Bast December 27, 2017Why did Inside Climate News run a piece littered with factual errors and relying on discredited sources? Maybe because Inside Climate News isn’t what its title says it is
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
Why Democrats Lose on Global Warming
by Joe Bast December 1, 2017This is what you would expect if Democrats were merely using fear of catastrophic climate change to get the support of low-information voters.
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Climate ChangeEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
Four Liberal U.S. Senators Attack Heartland, and We Reply
by Joe Bast June 9, 2017For the record, The Heartland Institute has contacted nearly all members of the Trump cabinet. Can any of you explain to me how this differs from the relationship the previous administration had with liberal advocacy groups?