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The Meaning of the California Inferno

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The Meaning of the California Inferno
A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The pattern is now all too familiar. Some disaster strikes. On closer examination, it should have been anticipated. Not only that: Terrible policy decisions made it inevitable. The jaw drops and the mind reels.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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