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I wonder if 1984 is still required reading in high school?
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I asked my nieces that very question a few months back and they had never heard of Orwell, Animal Farm or 1984. One of them showed me a book of essays they were using and the one that caught my eye was by Cornel West.  
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
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